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WILLIAM STEWART MACGEORGE RSA (SCOTTISH 1861 - 1934), THE SHORES OF THE DEE, NEAR SOLWAY oil on canvas, signed, titled label versoframedimage size 41cm x 51cm, overall size 58cm x 68cmLabel verso: Ian MacNicol, Glasgow.Note: William Stewart MacGeorge was born in King Street, Castle Douglas on 1 April 1861. Like his friend E A Hornel, he was the son of a shoe-maker. His father was David MacGeorge who, according to the 1861 census, was the employer of three men and a boy. He attended the Free Church School in Castle Douglas, where a fellow pupil was S R Crockett. Crockett included his childhood friends as characters in his 1894 novel The Raiders, and captures MacGeorge’s happy disposition in the character Jerry McWhirter, “a roguish fellow that came to me to help with my land surveying but was keener to draw with colours on paper, the hues of the landscape and the sea. But he was dearest to us because of his continual merry heart, which did us good like a medicine.” MacGeorge entered the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh in 1880 along with fellow Galloway boys E A Hornel and Thomas Bromley Blacklock. In 1881 MacGeorge and Crockett were lodging together at 50 St Leonard Street (Edinburgh). MacGeorge was a successful student being a prize-winner in his second and third years at art school, and had a work shown in the Royal Scottish Academy in 1881. In 1883 MacGeorge and Hornel enrolled in Antwerp’s Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, where MacGeorge again excelled under the rigorous discipline of Charles Verlat. On his return to Scotland, he enrolled in the RSA Life Schools in Edinburgh, where he continued his studies and embarked on his professional career. Thereafter, MacGeorge divided his life largely between Edinburgh and Galloway. He lived at 11 Melville Place, Edinburgh during the winter and had a studio in Kirkcudbright in the summer. Works such as A Galloway Peat Moss, displayed in the National Gallery of Scotland, is a fine example of a plein air realist work showing the influence of Jules Bastien–Lepage on Scottish artists while his Halloween, shown at the RSA in 1893, and to which he returned in his diploma work of 1911, is an example of his interest in childhood rituals. The painting was well received when shown later that year at the Paris Salon. W S MacGeorge was the most naturalistic of the Galloway artists. Informal scenes of children at play are typical of his work. Another favourite subject was the salmon fishers and their nets on the Dee at Kirkcudbright. Commenting on the RSA exhibition of 1910 The Studio observed, “One of the outstanding landscapes is Mr W S MacGeorge’s view of salmon fishers at dusk drawing their nets in the estuary of the Kirkcudbright Dee”. Relatively late in his life, MacGeorge married Mabel Victoria Elliot, a watercolour painter and widow of the artist Hugh Munro and settled at Gifford near Haddington. Ninety-nine of William Stewart MacGeorge's paintings are held in UK Public Collections.
Cecil ALDIN (ill): Two Well-Worn Shoe Stories. Sands, 1899, 1st. Edn. Oblong folio. Covers little rubbed, inner hinges cracked, VG; Joyeux Amis. Gris-gris. Hachette, Paris, 1925, 1st. Edn. With five colour plates. Pictorial boards, front inner hinges strengthened. VG; Joyeux Amis. Porcinet. L'Affamé. Hachette, Paris, 1925, 1st. Edn. With five colour plates. Pictorial boards. VG; Emanuel: A Dog Day. 1902, 1st. Edn. large 4to.With only 27 of 28 plates, A/F; Ratcatcher to Scarlet. Eyre and Spottiswoode, no date (1926), 1st. Edn. 4to. Covers little rubbed, o/w VG+; Mrs. Tickler's Caravan. Hollis & Carter, 1934, reprint. Pictorial boards, VG; Masefield: Right Royal, 1922, 1st. Illustrated edition; Old Inns. Heinemann, 1921, 1st. Edn. 4to. VG; Heron, Roy: The Sporting Art of Cecil Aldin, Sportsman's Press, 1990, 1st. Edn. DW, Fine copy; Heron, Roy: Cecil Aldin: The Story of a Sporting Artist. 1981, 1st. Edn. DW, fine. (10)
A collection of various treen, horn, brass and leather snuff and other shoes 19th Century, to include pique inlaid example and one dated 1844, togehter with two horn folding knives in the form of shoes, and a silver shoe pin cushion, the largest a leather and studded snuff box13cm long 4cm wide4.5cm high (23)Condition Reportvarious conditions, but most with wear and knocks, small losses and evidence of age and use, the pin cushion slightly mishapen
A George III mahogany elbow chair in the country Chippendale style - the shaped top-rail with carved 'horns', over a pierced vase splat, shaped arms with scroll carved terminals and a drop-in seat, raised on square chamfered front legs with an H-stretcher, 64 cm wide, 100.5 cm high.* The chair is structurally sound and the seat has recent upholstery. There is some old (inactive) worm to the softwood seat rails and to the top of the front right leg. Later corner blocks added to reinforce the seat rails and old dowelled repairs to the joints of the front legs and front rail. There are also some old, well executed repairs to the splat shoe piece on the back, to a break at the joint of the left arm and the back and to the side of the left arm, just above the support (see photos).
Family Medals: Pair: Driver G. T. Summerville, Royal Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (1748 Dvr. G. T. Summerville. R.A.) very fine Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (28762. Gunr. G. Summerville. 1/1. Sco: Div: R.A.) edge bruising and severe nick to suspension, good fine (3) £70-£90 --- George Thomas Summerville lived at 103 Eglinton Road, Plumstead, London, and worked in the ‘shoe trade’. He served in France from 25 June 1916 with the 60th (London) Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery, and was later transferred to Salonika in November 1916. Summerville was later discharged from 302nd Brigade due to sickness on 20 September 1918, and was awarded Silver War Badge ‘B2693’. George Summerville was born at Ritchill, Armagh, Ireland, in 1851, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Belfast on 30 July 1868. Recorded as 17 years of age and illiterate, he served as Gunner with the South Irish Division, Scottish Division and Cinque Ports Division of the Royal Artillery. Posted to India and Aden, Summerville received his L.S.G.C. Medal and gratuity of £5 in 1887 and was discharged after 20 years with the Colours. His Army Service Record notes his intended place of residence as ‘51 Sidney Street, off Crumlin Road, Belfast.’
AN INDIAN LANCE, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with sharply tapering head formed with a reinforced point, openwork base formed of a pair of stylised tigers, tapering faceted socket rising to a monsterhead terminal, on an early painted wooden haft with associated iron shoe chiselled with raised spirally fluted mouldings and tapering spike, 345.0 cm overall ProvenanceRoy Elvis Catalogue Number F12
A SOUTH INDIAN SPEAR (VEL), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with broad straight tapering head formed with a pronounced medial ridge and a reinforced sharp point, flaring at the base to a pair of sharp lugs, associated tubular brass socket with three raised plain mouldings and a pierced top moulding with pierced and engraved brim, on a later wooden haft with iron shoe, 265.0 cm overall ProvenanceRoy Elvis Catalogue Number F40
A SOUTH INDIAN HALBERD, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY, MYSORE with tapering terminal spike formed with a reinforced point, curved axe-blade of European form and re-curved rear blade each with a moulded base, tapering socket engraved with brief inscriptions and interrupted by a raised chiselled moulding, on its wooden haft with iron shoe, the head painted with a further white inventory number ‘118’, 218.2 cm overall Provenance Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F14
18th Century English wooden doll, inset blue enamel eyes, painted eyelashes and eyebrows, painted mouth and rosy cheeks, torso tapered at the waist, jointed wooden legs and wooden arms, wearing faded blue silk dress with lace trim black stocking, one green shoe and undergarments, chip to nose and marks for forehead and neck, one leg detached, chip to shoulder, 31" (79cm) high
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY READING CHAIR IN THE MANNER OF MORGAN & SANDERS, CIRCA 1825 The horseshoe shaped crest rail with an inset brass rail holding a sliding adjustable ratcheted reading stand 81cm high, 105cm high reading rest maximum, 60cm wide, 70cm deepFor a closely related reading chair see Christie's, The Raglan Collection, London, 22nd-23rd May 2014, Lot 142, (£5,000)Morgan & Sanders (fl. 1801-1820) specialised in ranges of patent and metamorphic furniture. Their 1801 billhead states 'Manufacturers of ... New Invented Imperial dining tables and portable chairs...'. Alongside Morgan & Sanders' popular metamorphic library chairs/steps and chairs such as the present chair, one of their more ingenious inventions was a combined writing desk and globe table. Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. The brass runner to the back of the horse shoe top rail can stick in places and would benefit from some attention so it would run smoothly.The ratchet mechanism for the reading rest works as intended, the release catch for the heigh adjustable brass arm has a tendency to stick.The reading rest with some additional ring marks and minor scratches and discolouration.Of solid, stable structure overall. There is some minor movement to one of the arms of the horse shoe top rail The upholstery with various minor marks, wear and discolouration. Please see all additional images and a visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
A SET OF FOURTEEN GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS CIRCA 1780 Including a pair of armchairs each armchair 94cm high, 60cm wide, 54cm deep overall each armchair 94cm high, 52cm wide, 50cm deep overall Condition Report: Overall there are some scratches, marks, chips, cracks and abrasions consistent with age and use. Some areas of wear and fading. There are some losses and restorations: including repairs to some arm joints, crest rails, leg/seat rail joints, feet, stretchers; the drop in seats with later leather; some scuffing; One chair has a large spliced element to each of the four feet (see additional images) Four of the chairs vary from the remainder of the set therefore are matched to the set. The legs of these four chairs are thinner and the taper of the 'shoe' piece at the base of the splats varies from the other ten chairs. Please see all the additional condition report photographs through the link on the condition report email as a visual reference of condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Men's Loake Hackney Brown shoes size 10 F, with box and soft dust bag, unworn but a few scratches on one sole. Barkers boxed brown calf shoe size 44 unworn, Barkers Nova shoes in brown leather size 44 (10E) boxed with dust bags, light wear. Other shoes include brown brogues, Russell & Bromley black leather etc. (x7)
A collection of silver and white metal brooch pins. The brooches to include a large carved 19th century mother-of-pearl oriental brooch pin, a cloisonne decorated shoe, a hallmarked silver Scottish agate shield brooch, silver horseshoe brooches, a hallmarked mounted Victorian silver shilling 1887, two initial pins E & W, a butterfly wing bar brooch.
A COLLECTION OF ITEMS FROM CAPTAIN MUDDLE'S CABINETTo include: A jam spoon from constantinople (with old label), a bead serpent dated 1911 purchased from Constantinople, a sandal wood rosary dated 1911 from Sainte Sophie in Constantinople, old marquetry inlaid box, a shoe buckle, lace, hat pins and more.From the Captain Muddle collection cabinet, but most items probably collected by his ancestors.James Muddle was born at Gillingham in Kent on 31 January 1785. James probably went to sea at a fairly young age and worked his way up to become a master mariner. The first record of him at sea, at the age of 25, is as the master of the small single mast sloop Boston sailing in coastal waters. In 1814, James then became master of the 356-ton ship ‘Leng’, armed with six 6-pounder guns, bound for the West Indies. The Lloyd's Register for 1820 also recorded that during that year James took over from as master of the 410 ton convict ship Lord Sidmouth. By the age of 35, James had progressed from being master of ships sailing in coastal waters to sailing to the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic, and now to the other side of the World. In 1820 it was reported that the Lord Sidmouth captain Muddle had sailed from Portsmouth on for New South Wales. After a voyage of 107 days, they arrived at Sydney in Australia on 19 February 1821, where 160 male prisoners were disembarked. James and the Lord Sidmouth also sailed to Jakarta, Calcutta, Mauritius. Upon arriving back to England in 1821, James became captain of the prison ship the ‘Andromeda’, which sailed from Leith to to Van Diemans Land and New South Wales. During the following two decades of travels in and around Australia, James will have collected many of the items in the collection. James is also known to have been captain of the ship ‘Lang’, as well as the “Mandarin’, ‘Glenbervie’ and the ‘Roseanne’. He sailed on prison ships to New Zealand and even China. James died in 1865 at the age of 80, and his collection has been passed by descent down the generations to the present owners.For more information please see the link below:https://www.muddlefamilies.info/harrietsham/22eaa.htm
Paddington Bear - Aunty Lucy large bear by Gabrielle designs with hat, spectacles and clothes and luggage label for Peruvian Rugby FC Reserves Supporters Club. Missing a shoe but otherwise appears to be in very good condition with some slight storage wear / dust. (This does not constitute a guarantee.) [GM]
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