Property from the Coats Collection
Manner of Bernardo Bellotto
Dresden, a view of the old fortifications, from the south west
Lot Closed
January 20, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Coats Collection
Manner of Bernardo Bellotto
Dresden, a view of the old fortifications, from the south west
oil on canvas
unframed: 94 x 126.4 cm.; 37 x 49¾ in.
framed: 106 x 140.8 cm.; 41¾ x 55⅜ in.
Sale, France, lot 152 (according to an old auction catalogue cut-out on the reverse);
With Thomas McLean, London (according to a label on the reverse);
Acquired by William Allan Coats (1853-1926)
With Thomas McLean, London (according to a label on the reverse);
Acquired by William Allan Coats (1853-1926)
Dalskairth House, Dumfriesshire, Inventory, 1926, in the Dining Room.
A later copy after the original painting dated 1752 by Bellotto in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (inv.no. 207), one of a series of fifteen paintings commissioned by Count Heinrich von Bruhl. The composition was engraved in 1750.