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s7-15 December: Classic Week auc;ons including Old Masters Part I on 7 December and Old Masters Part II Pain;ngs, Drawings & Watercolours on 8 December.

And galleryexhibi;ons elsewhere across London...
Haynes Fine Art / Pimlico Road
1-23 December: Cityscapes-pain;ngs of London, Paris and Venice by 19thto 21stcentury ar;sts such as Edouard Cortès, Charles Malle, Claude Venard, David Shepherd and Haynes’ resident contemporary ar;st Tony Karpinski.

AbboH & Holder / BloomsburyDecember:
List 543.

Finch & Co / Cromwell
Place5-10 December: Anew catalogue and corresponding exhibi;on, a highlight of which is an extremely rare and very fine ivory Turned Box andCover with the Tudor Rose ahributedto the ‘Master Turner’ to the Court of Henry VIII, c. 1540-60. Avery similar turning is the ivory turned case housing a miniature of Ann of Cleves by Hans Holbein, 1539, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

OnlineExhibi;ons and Highlight worksto discover via the LAW website...
Patrick Bourne & Co
Highlight: as leading dealers in the works ofSir William Nicholson (1872-1949), the gallery will showcaseSnow at Bretton Park, a 1939 signed oil on panel.

Karen Taylor Fine Art
Highlight:a powerful drawing by the French painter, sculptor and etcherAlphonse Legros(1837-1911) who moved to London at the behest of Whistler in 1863. He became Professor of Fine Art at the Slade from 1875-1892, layingthe foundation for the School’stradition of fine draughtsmanship.

Nonesuch Gallery
Online exhibi;on:Drawings & PainEngs from France c.1600-1900, includes a single work from a now dispersed comprehensive visual catalogue depic;ng the proper;es and lands of the Duc du Croÿ (1560-1612), a gouache on vellum showing The Village & Chateau D'agimont(1597) From The Albums De Croÿ by Adrien De Mon;gny (Fl.1590-1610). Amir Mohtashemi Highlight:Aunique twelve-leaf folding screen, made in late seventeenth-century South China for the local market, which belongs to a rare group of about eight other known lacquered screens of the period depic;ng Dutchmen. Related examples are in the Na;onal Museumof Denmark, Copenhagen, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Dominic Fine Art
Highlight: SEll Life of Fish / Ingredients for a Bouillabaisse, by Auguste Lauzet (1863-1898), dedicated “a L’excellent ami Paul Guigou | A Lauzet 82”. Lauzet was one of the few mourners at Vincent van Gogh’s funeral and is men;oned in 16 of his lehers sent between December 1889 and Vincent’s death in July 1890, around which ;me Theo van Gogh had suggested the two ar;sts share a studio in Paris.

Paolo Antonacci
Highlight: Oswald Achenbach (A827-1905), View of the piazza del Quirinale in Rome, shown here for the first time on the market. The paintingcomes from an illustrious German family who had left it on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf, whereit was displayed from 1983 onwards.

H. Blairman & Sons
Highlight: a pair of armchairs from the collec;on of William Beckford, possibly from Fonthill Abbey. English, 1827-1844.

Stuart Lochhead Sculpture
Highlight: a fine terracoha portrait bust by Joseph Chinard (1756-1813), the most accomplished sculptor in post-Revolu;onary France, and a rare documented commission. It represents Alexis Guiffrey, the son of a Lyonnais merchant, at the age of three. Commissioned by the parents of the siher the bust was executed ‘from life’ by Chinard in 1803, and eventually formed part of the collec;on of the famous French art historian Jules Guiffrey, the nephew of Alexis.

E&H Manners
Highlight: a biscuit porcelain bust aNer the model by Johann Goyried Schadow (1764-1850) made by the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, Berlin c. 1874. It depicts Crown Princess Luise of Prussia (Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776-1810)) who married Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia on the 24 December 1793. Her sister Friederike married his younger brother a few days later. Their arrival in Berlin caused a sensa;on, with Schadow sta;ng “a magic spell had taken effect in Berlin, extending through all estates, with the appearance of the aristocra;c sisters”.

Thomas Coulborn& Sons
Highlight: an extremely rare mechanical George IV octagonal parquetry table c. 1825. It features a beau;ful octagonal oak top with parquetry blocks pahern and decora;ve stringing to the edges, but its most remarkable secret is the lockable catch on the underside of the top which reveals piano style keys -when depressed, each open a corresponding ‘hidden’ drawer. The lock is stamped ‘GR’.

Reve Art
Online exhibition: Venezia ‘900. From Biennale to Ca’ Pesaro

Stair Sainty
Highlight: The Woman in Black, c.1885by Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931). Forain, a former student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École de beaux Arts in Paris was an associate of the Impressionists and is perhaps best remembered as a lead caricaturist of the Belle Époque. He worked for Le Figaro for over 30 years and his drawings of the everyday life of Parisians went on to inspire artists such as Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. The Fine Art Society Highlight: Frederick Burrows (fl. 1900), Design for silk for the National Competition, 1902, signed and inscribed in pen and pencil–a work in watercolour, gouache and pencil on paperthat was exhibitedat theVictoria & Albert Museum, NaEonal CompeEEon for the Schools of Artin 1902. This work can be seen at FAS Edinburgh in an exhibi;on Frederick Burrows -Tex E l e D e s i g n sopen un;l 22 December 2023.