A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Boy turn thy Laughter into Floods of Tears And Tune thy Instrument to mournful airs… E' Collectione Nath. Oldham Armig.
Fran. Hals pinx. G.White fecit 1732.
Sold by Sam.l Sympson at his Print Shop in Maiden Lane Cov.t Garden.
Mezzotint. 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"), with large margins. Faint mount burn.
A fine impression of this magnificent composition of a laughing boy playing the fiddle framed by an ivy-covered window.
CS: 59
[Ref: 47318] £480.00
Fran. Hals pinx. G.White fecit 1732.
Sold by Sam.l Sympson at his Print Shop in Maiden Lane Cov.t Garden.
Mezzotint. 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"), with large margins. Faint mount burn.
A fine impression of this magnificent composition of a laughing boy playing the fiddle framed by an ivy-covered window.
CS: 59
[Ref: 47318] £480.00
Boy turn thy Laughter into Floods of Tears And Tune thy Instrument to mournful airs… E' Collectione Nath. Oldham Armig.
Fran. Hals pinx. G.White fecit 1732.
Sold by T. Jeffreys in the Strand and W.Herbert on London Bridge.
Rare mezzotint, 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Narrow margins and laid on blue album paper.
A fine impression of this magnificent composition of a laughing boy playing the fiddle framed by an ivy-covered window.
CS: 59. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69207] £480.00
Fran. Hals pinx. G.White fecit 1732.
Sold by T. Jeffreys in the Strand and W.Herbert on London Bridge.
Rare mezzotint, 375 x 260mm (14¾ x 10¼"). Narrow margins and laid on blue album paper.
A fine impression of this magnificent composition of a laughing boy playing the fiddle framed by an ivy-covered window.
CS: 59. Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 69207] £480.00
![[Smiling man and woman.]](jpegs/22538.jpg)
[Smiling man and woman.]
F:Hals Pinx. N. Verkolje Fec.
[Dutch School, n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint, laid paper, 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"). A good impression, with margins.
Possibly an English reissue of a Dutch plate. After Frans Hals (1585 - 1666).
[Ref: 22538] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
F:Hals Pinx. N. Verkolje Fec.
[Dutch School, n.d., c.1730.]
Mezzotint, laid paper, 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"). A good impression, with margins.
Possibly an English reissue of a Dutch plate. After Frans Hals (1585 - 1666).
[Ref: 22538] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
From a Picture in the possession of Mr. Reynolds.
Fra.s Hals pinxt. T. Blackmore fect.
Sold by Ryland and Bryer, Engravers and Printsellers, at the Kings arms Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 222mm (12¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate, some rubbing.
Portrait of a Dutch lady in a gown with a broad collar, unlaced at the bodice leaving the breasts exposed, holding up a coin and smiling towards the viewer. Possibly Lysbeth Reyniers (d.1675), who married the Dutch artist Frans Hals in 1617. She survived him by some nine years.
CS 5: i/ii.
[Ref: 23982] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Fra.s Hals pinxt. T. Blackmore fect.
Sold by Ryland and Bryer, Engravers and Printsellers, at the Kings arms Cornhill [n.d., c.1770].
Mezzotint. 325 x 222mm (12¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to plate, some rubbing.
Portrait of a Dutch lady in a gown with a broad collar, unlaced at the bodice leaving the breasts exposed, holding up a coin and smiling towards the viewer. Possibly Lysbeth Reyniers (d.1675), who married the Dutch artist Frans Hals in 1617. She survived him by some nine years.
CS 5: i/ii.
[Ref: 23982] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
From a Picture in the possession of Mr. Reynolds.
Fras. Hals pinxt. T. Blackmore fect.
[Sold by Ryland and Bryer Engravers and Printsellers, at the Kings Amrs Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. Wonderful image, very fine with full margins, plate 330 x 226mm. 13 x 8¾".
A wonderful image of a Dutch lady with naked bosom, holding up coin in right hand.
CS: 5: before I. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14774] £480.00
Fras. Hals pinxt. T. Blackmore fect.
[Sold by Ryland and Bryer Engravers and Printsellers, at the Kings Amrs Cornhill.] [n.d. c.1760.]
Mezzotint. Wonderful image, very fine with full margins, plate 330 x 226mm. 13 x 8¾".
A wonderful image of a Dutch lady with naked bosom, holding up coin in right hand.
CS: 5: before I. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 14774] £480.00
![[The Flute Player.]](jpegs/33709.jpg)
[The Flute Player.]
F. Hals Pinx.t. J.S. Negges fecit.
Cum Gratia et Privil. S.C.M. Acad. Fr. A.A.L.L. [Augsburg, c.1740.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed close to plate on all sides, crease in inscription area.
A half-length portrait of a young man playing a wooden flute, wearing a feathered cap and cloak. It was engraved by Johann Simon Negges (1726-92) after the painting by the Dutch painter Frans Hals (1585-1666), who is best known for the 'Laughing Cavalier'.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33709] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)
F. Hals Pinx.t. J.S. Negges fecit.
Cum Gratia et Privil. S.C.M. Acad. Fr. A.A.L.L. [Augsburg, c.1740.]
Rare mezzotint. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed close to plate on all sides, crease in inscription area.
A half-length portrait of a young man playing a wooden flute, wearing a feathered cap and cloak. It was engraved by Johann Simon Negges (1726-92) after the painting by the Dutch painter Frans Hals (1585-1666), who is best known for the 'Laughing Cavalier'.
Ex: Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33709] £270.00 (£324.00 incl.VAT)
Van Goyen his Wife and Child. From an Original Painting of F: Hals in ye Possession of M,,r Tho,,s Woodington.
Fran,,s Hals pinx,,t. J. Wright fec,,t.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb,,y 15,,th 1771. [And Sold at the Print Shops. ]
Mezzotint. 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, margin and plate built up lower left, tears, most repaired, surface damage in inscription area.
A scarce portrait of influential Dutch landscape painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), with his wife and child in a landscape.
CS 5, state ii.
[Ref: 62756] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Fran,,s Hals pinx,,t. J. Wright fec,,t.
Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb,,y 15,,th 1771. [And Sold at the Print Shops. ]
Mezzotint. 410 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, margin and plate built up lower left, tears, most repaired, surface damage in inscription area.
A scarce portrait of influential Dutch landscape painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), with his wife and child in a landscape.
CS 5, state ii.
[Ref: 62756] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
![[Smiling man and woman.]](jpegs/34658.jpg)
[Smiling man and woman.]
F:Hals Pinx. N. Verkolje Fec.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Scarce mezzotint. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"), wih large margins. A good impression.
Engraved by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746), who like his father Jan was a painter (influenced by Lairesse, van der Werff and Metsu) and printmaker. Supposedly after Frans Hals (1585 - 1666), who had died before Verkolje was born.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Not recorded by Le Blanc.
[Ref: 34658] £390.00
F:Hals Pinx. N. Verkolje Fec.
[n.d., c.1730.]
Scarce mezzotint. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4"), wih large margins. A good impression.
Engraved by Nicolaas Verkolje (1673-1746), who like his father Jan was a painter (influenced by Lairesse, van der Werff and Metsu) and printmaker. Supposedly after Frans Hals (1585 - 1666), who had died before Verkolje was born.
Ex: Collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Not recorded by Le Blanc.
[Ref: 34658] £390.00
Le Ménetrier en Guinguette. The Merry Left Handed Fiddler.
London Pub.d May 1829 by A. Friedel Surrey Street Strand.
Lithograph, rare with large margins. 406 x 266mm. 16 x 10½".
A young boy playing the violin with his left-hand; seen through arched window frame with leaves running over the top. After a painting attributed to Frans Hals in an earlier print.
For an earlier mezzotint from the same painting see ref. 2926
[Ref: 24881] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
London Pub.d May 1829 by A. Friedel Surrey Street Strand.
Lithograph, rare with large margins. 406 x 266mm. 16 x 10½".
A young boy playing the violin with his left-hand; seen through arched window frame with leaves running over the top. After a painting attributed to Frans Hals in an earlier print.
For an earlier mezzotint from the same painting see ref. 2926
[Ref: 24881] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Musical Boy. Done from the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Mountstuart.
Frans Halls pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.
Published July 24,,th 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Thread margins, laid on collector's monogram in image.
A young Dutchman playing a violin in an interior, a lute hanging on the wall behind. On the table is a small loaf of bread and a jug. The monogram, that of Thomas Blayds (1795-1849), a banker of Surrey, was identified in 1977. The British Museum has antiquities and drawings from his collection.
CS 159, ii of ii. Goodwin 181, ii of ii. Lugt L.416a. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66282] £380.00
Frans Halls pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit.
Published July 24,,th 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Thread margins, laid on collector's monogram in image.
A young Dutchman playing a violin in an interior, a lute hanging on the wall behind. On the table is a small loaf of bread and a jug. The monogram, that of Thomas Blayds (1795-1849), a banker of Surrey, was identified in 1977. The British Museum has antiquities and drawings from his collection.
CS 159, ii of ii. Goodwin 181, ii of ii. Lugt L.416a. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 66282] £380.00
![[Boy with violin.]](jpegs/9290.jpg)
[Boy with violin.]
[Engraved by James McArdell after Frans Hals.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Very fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 480 x 320mm, 19 x 12½".
A young boy with a violin.
Not mentioned in Whitman.
[Ref: 9290] £490.00
[Engraved by James McArdell after Frans Hals.]
[n.d., c.1760.]
Very fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 480 x 320mm, 19 x 12½".
A young boy with a violin.
Not mentioned in Whitman.
[Ref: 9290] £490.00
![[The Musical Boy]](jpegs/34016.jpg)
[The Musical Boy] [Done from the Original Picture of the same size, in the Collection of the Right Honourable Lord Mountstuart.]
F. Halls Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit
Publish'd July 24th 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Good impression; very rare;
Boy playing the violin; fruit, knife and flask on table in front, two listeners behind with lute hanging on wall. From a picture attributed here to Frans Hals but probably since reattributed.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Goodwin 182 i/ii; CS 159 i/ii.
[Ref: 34016] £360.00
F. Halls Pinxit. James Watson Sculpsit
Publish'd July 24th 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint, platemark 380 x 280mm (15 x 11"). Good impression; very rare;
Boy playing the violin; fruit, knife and flask on table in front, two listeners behind with lute hanging on wall. From a picture attributed here to Frans Hals but probably since reattributed.
Ex collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Goodwin 182 i/ii; CS 159 i/ii.
[Ref: 34016] £360.00