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Henry Callender Esq., The Society of Golfers at Blackheath.
[Painted by Lemuel Francis Abbott] William Henderson [signed in pencil].
Vicars Brothers, 12 Old Bond Street, London W.: September 1, 1916.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 540 x 355mm (21¼ x 14"). Slight foxing.
Henry Callender was a prominent English golfer in the late 18th Century. He was painted here by the famous portrait artist LF Abbott, wearing the ‘Field Marshal's’ uniform of the Blackheath Society of Golfers. The two golf clubs illustrated are said to be still in the possession of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club.
[Ref: 5] £850.00
[Samuel Johnson.]
Will. Henderson [pencil signature].
Published 1923 by The Museum Galleries, 28, Museum Street, London, W.C. Copyright.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"), very large margins, with a letterpress biography.
A copy of the famous half length portrait of writer Samuel Johnson (1709-84), painted by Sir Joshua Reybolds c.1772.
[Ref: 57841] £75.00
(£90.00 incl.VAT)
[Sir Walter Ralegh.]
Will. Henderson [pencil signature].
Published 1924 by The Museum Galleries, 53, Shorts Gardens, London, W.C. Copyright.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 310 x 225mm (12¼ x 8¾"), very large margins, with a letterpress biography.
Half-length portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh (or Raleigh, c.1552-1618), Elizabethan writer, soldier, explorer and politician. The original oil, painted by an unknown artist in the year of the Spanish Armada, shows the sea captain in a doublet embellished with pearls. It is now in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 7).
[Ref: 57845] £85.00
(£102.00 incl.VAT)
[Leo Tolstoy.]
Will Henderson [signed in pencil lower right.]
Published 1926 by the Museum Galleries, 53, Shorts Gardens, London, W.C. Copyright.
Colour printed mezzotint, 315 x 230mm. 12½ x 9". Publisher's blindstamp lower left.
Count Leo Tolstoy [1828 - 1910], Russian novelist.
[Ref: 8547] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Leo Tolstoy.]
[after Ilya Repin.] Will. Henderson [pencil signature.]
Published 1926 by the Museum Galleries, 69 Shorts Gardens, London WC. Copyright.
Colour-printed photogravure on india. 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"), Printsellers' blind stamp, with sheet of letterpress biography.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', from Il'ya Repin's 1901 full-length portrait of Tolstoy, barefooted (St Petersburg, State Museum), cropping the composition to the sitter's upper body. Repin (1844-1930), the foremost exponent of the late 19th century Russian Realist style, first met Tolstoy in 1880 and produced several portraits of him.
[Ref: 40500] £360.00
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