Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 2 - 2nd March 2022
Lot 317
Manner of Melchior d'Hondecoeter (19th Century)
Estimate £1,500 - £2,500 | Hammer £2500
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Description
Manner of Melchior d'Hondecoeter (19th Century)
A peacock, cockerel, hen, pheasant, mallards and other birds in a parkland
Oil on canvas
79.8 x 100.2cm; 31½ x 39¼in
Provenance:
Collection of Colonel Johann Alexander Artemis Sparre of Sweden (1800-1885), (according to label);
Collection of Berndt Hay, Swedish industrialist, 1919;
Private collection, Germany
Colonel Sparre was the father of Josephine Sparre (1829-1892) who was mistress of King Charles XV of Sweden and also the lady in waiting to the Queen.