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Henry Wallis

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5.000 £ - 8.000 £
ca. 6.163 $ - 9.860 $
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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 26

Henry Wallis

Schätzpreis
5.000 £ - 8.000 £
ca. 6.163 $ - 9.860 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Henry Wallis (British, 1830-1916) His Highness and His Excellency the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic signed and inscribed 'No 1./Henry Wallis./9 Red Lion Square/W.C.' (on an old label attached to the stretcher) oil on canvas 66 x 92cm (26 x 36 1/4in). Fußnoten Provenance Sold at the exhibition in Dublin in 1873. T. O'Mahony Collection, Castlecorner, Kilkenny, Ireland, by 1973. Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 8 November 1996, lot 62. Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale). Exhibited London, Dudley Gallery, Cabinet Pictures in Oil, 1870, no. 93, asking price £200. London, The International Exhibition, 1871, no. 473. Dublin, Industrial Exhibition Palace, Loan Museum of Art Treasures, 1873, no. 12, asking price £200. Literature The Illustrated London News, 5 November 1870, p. 478. Art, Pictorial and Industrial, An Illustrated Magazine, vol. I, p. 124. The Art Journal, vol. IX, 1870, p. 372. The Athenaeum, no. 2245, 5 November 1870, p. 598. The Illustrated London News, 7 January 1871, p. 16. Ronald Lessens, The British Art Journal, 'Henry Wallis (1830-1916), a neglected Pre-Raphaelite', vol. XV, no. 1, p. 54. During 1502 and 1503 Niccolò Machiavelli head of the second chancery of Florence and acting as emissary and spy, accompanied Cesare Borgia around Romagna. This region, recently conquered by Borgia, extended startingly close to the city-state of Florence; the Florentine government were unsure of Borgia's intentions towards them, but they were aware of his ambition and ruthlessness. They sent Machiavelli to discover his objectives while working as a diplomat, Borgia knew of the duplicity of this assignment and Machiavelli knew Borgia knew. This resulted in a battle of intellect as Machiavelli sent letters back to Florence while trying to avoid Borgia's censors. Also in Romagna around 1502, not pictured here, was Leonardo da Vinci who had been commissioned by Borgia to survey the area and reportedly interacted with Machiavelli at this time. This is the first of a series of Italian Renaissance inspired paintings that would preoccupy Wallis's work in the 1870s. The painting received mixed reviews at the Dudley Gallery exhibition. The critic for Art, Pictorial and Industrial said 'His Highness and His Excellence the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic (93) by H. Wallis, is not, perhaps, altogether original in conception, but it is painted with great knowledge, and is excellent in tone. The bits of glowing sky seen through the trees which overhang the garden wall by which the great Florentine and the Prince are seated, help the picture greatly'. The critic for The Art Journal said, 'Mr. H. Wallis, we fear, has laid himself open to the charge of plagiarism in an otherwise commendable picture – His Highness and His Excellence the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic (93). Certainly these figures on a bench are singularly like to Cabanel's well-known composition The Florentine Poet. Mr. Wallis, however, whether or not he has stolen an idea, succeeds in making an agreeable picture: once more he pushes colour to a romantic pitch; his work, if not strong, is subtle and sensitive to beauty'. The critic of The Illustrated London News indicated, 'The praise of dramatic insight is due to Mr. H. Wallis's picture His Highness and his Excellence the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic (93), representing Duke Caesar Borgia and Machiavelli conversing on a garden-seat. The painter shows two well-contrasted types of representative Italian public men of the fifteenth and early in the sixteenth century. His Highness lolls, careless and laughing on his seat. Red-haired, of sanguine temperament, and dressed in a crimson suit, he is the man of action, combining the craft of the fox with the bloodthirstiness of the tiger. The other is the man of thought and deceitful diplomacy. He is of atralbilarious temperament, cold and astute; sitting erect and self-contained, he essays to purchase security for a Republic enervated by wealth

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 26
Auktion:
Datum:
26.09.2019
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Henry Wallis (British, 1830-1916) His Highness and His Excellency the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic signed and inscribed 'No 1./Henry Wallis./9 Red Lion Square/W.C.' (on an old label attached to the stretcher) oil on canvas 66 x 92cm (26 x 36 1/4in). Fußnoten Provenance Sold at the exhibition in Dublin in 1873. T. O'Mahony Collection, Castlecorner, Kilkenny, Ireland, by 1973. Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 8 November 1996, lot 62. Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale). Exhibited London, Dudley Gallery, Cabinet Pictures in Oil, 1870, no. 93, asking price £200. London, The International Exhibition, 1871, no. 473. Dublin, Industrial Exhibition Palace, Loan Museum of Art Treasures, 1873, no. 12, asking price £200. Literature The Illustrated London News, 5 November 1870, p. 478. Art, Pictorial and Industrial, An Illustrated Magazine, vol. I, p. 124. The Art Journal, vol. IX, 1870, p. 372. The Athenaeum, no. 2245, 5 November 1870, p. 598. The Illustrated London News, 7 January 1871, p. 16. Ronald Lessens, The British Art Journal, 'Henry Wallis (1830-1916), a neglected Pre-Raphaelite', vol. XV, no. 1, p. 54. During 1502 and 1503 Niccolò Machiavelli head of the second chancery of Florence and acting as emissary and spy, accompanied Cesare Borgia around Romagna. This region, recently conquered by Borgia, extended startingly close to the city-state of Florence; the Florentine government were unsure of Borgia's intentions towards them, but they were aware of his ambition and ruthlessness. They sent Machiavelli to discover his objectives while working as a diplomat, Borgia knew of the duplicity of this assignment and Machiavelli knew Borgia knew. This resulted in a battle of intellect as Machiavelli sent letters back to Florence while trying to avoid Borgia's censors. Also in Romagna around 1502, not pictured here, was Leonardo da Vinci who had been commissioned by Borgia to survey the area and reportedly interacted with Machiavelli at this time. This is the first of a series of Italian Renaissance inspired paintings that would preoccupy Wallis's work in the 1870s. The painting received mixed reviews at the Dudley Gallery exhibition. The critic for Art, Pictorial and Industrial said 'His Highness and His Excellence the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic (93) by H. Wallis, is not, perhaps, altogether original in conception, but it is painted with great knowledge, and is excellent in tone. The bits of glowing sky seen through the trees which overhang the garden wall by which the great Florentine and the Prince are seated, help the picture greatly'. The critic for The Art Journal said, 'Mr. H. Wallis, we fear, has laid himself open to the charge of plagiarism in an otherwise commendable picture – His Highness and His Excellence the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic (93). Certainly these figures on a bench are singularly like to Cabanel's well-known composition The Florentine Poet. Mr. Wallis, however, whether or not he has stolen an idea, succeeds in making an agreeable picture: once more he pushes colour to a romantic pitch; his work, if not strong, is subtle and sensitive to beauty'. The critic of The Illustrated London News indicated, 'The praise of dramatic insight is due to Mr. H. Wallis's picture His Highness and his Excellence the Ambassador of the Florentine Republic (93), representing Duke Caesar Borgia and Machiavelli conversing on a garden-seat. The painter shows two well-contrasted types of representative Italian public men of the fifteenth and early in the sixteenth century. His Highness lolls, careless and laughing on his seat. Red-haired, of sanguine temperament, and dressed in a crimson suit, he is the man of action, combining the craft of the fox with the bloodthirstiness of the tiger. The other is the man of thought and deceitful diplomacy. He is of atralbilarious temperament, cold and astute; sitting erect and self-contained, he essays to purchase security for a Republic enervated by wealth

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 26
Auktion:
Datum:
26.09.2019
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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