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Lot 192
HENRY WENTWORTH DYKE ACLAND "By Severn Sea", extensive seascape, watercolour, unsigned, inscribed to mount and on label verso "Given to John Ruskin in memory of the late Sir Henry W. Acland, Bart. in accordance with his special request that some memorial should be sent, 1901", also bearing gallery label verso "Ryman & Co., Oxford", 22 x 49.25 cm
Lot 1144
J Steuart-Seton early 20th century- "Scottish Seascape"; oil on canvas, signed, 59.5x90.3cm (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Note: This painting may be by Reginald MacDonald of Staffa who married into the Steuart family of Allanton and inherited the title and assumed the name Steuart-Seton (transposing the original order of the family surname). The demolition of Allanton House removed a link with the stirring days of Scottish history, The Stuarts whose line has now died out, wore one of the old-established families of Scotland. They were related to Lord Darnel, the unhappy husband of Mary, Queen of Scots; and their story is rich with romantic incident. Successor to this James Steuart was Henry, born in 1759. He was quite a remarkable gentleman. In the army till 1747, he retired to Allanton to devote himself to literary pursuits and the improvement of his estate. In 1807 he published a pamphlet advocating the construction of a canal from the Lanarkshire coalfields to Edinburgh. At his death in 1838 he left in manuscript a fragment of a history of the rebellion of 1745, and notes for -a history of Scotland, His magnum opus was "The Planters Guide", in which he described a new method or planting trees. His own estate was a witness to the soundness of his ideas; much of its beauty is due to his care. Henry's literary attainments won for him the degree of LLD., and he was a fellow of the Royal Society, and of the antiquarian Society of Edinburgh. In 1787 he married Lillias, daughter or Hugh Seton, Squire of Touch, and about the same time built the present mansion house, as the cold Tower of Allanton was in a state of decay. In 1814 he was created a Baronet; and he died in 1836. Sir Henry's only surviving child was his daughter, Elizabeth Margaret, who married in 1812 Reginald Macdonald, of Staffa. In 1835, on the death of her mother, she succeeded to the estate of Touch, and on the death of her father the title devolved to her husband, who assumed the name of Steuart-Seton, of Edinburgh.
Lot 383
Scrap album. A scrap album containing approx. twenty-six watercolours, pencil drawings, and pen & ink sketches by noted artists, 1901-36, incl. caricatures by Frank Reynolds, Phil May, John Hassall, and A.J. Hardman, a pencil portrait of a mustachioed gentleman by Stan Wood, a pencil sketch of a duck by Cecil Aldin, another of Bonzo by G.E. Studdy, a watercolour seascape by Edith S. King, another of the sun setting over water by Sid Gardner, a pencil drawing of a windmill by T.W. Hammond, a watercolour of a young cleric by Fred May, a pencil drawing of a horse and foal by Arthur Spooner, another of Madame Butterfly by Lance Thackeray, and others, a.e.g., orig. roan, worn, with sl. loss to spine, and leather to upper cover split at edges and becoming detached, approx. 170 x 200mm, together with several sketches on envelopes loosely inserted With manuscript letter signed from Tom Browne to Mrs. Atkey tipped-in to front pastedown, on the artists headed paper, dated February 1st 1902, in which Browne explains that he is returning the album, saying I have got a few good names in your book. The first contribution to the album - a pen & ink sketch of a London cabby - is by Browne himself. (1)
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