Nicolas Poussin (1594-1655)
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1655)Eucharist, c.1637-40, oil on canvas, 95.5 x 121 cms
Sold to the National Gallery, London, as a Hybrid Offer in Lieu of Tax and announced by the National Gallery to be "one of the greatest paintings of the Last Supper."
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1655)
Confirmation, c.1637-40, oil on canvas 95.5 x 121 cmsA Private Sale
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97)
Self Portrait at the Age of about Forty (with a sketch for An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump on the reverse) (oil on canvas)Sold as a Hybrid / Offer in Lieu of Tax to Derby Museums
Banksy (b.1974)
Girl with Balloon, 2003, spray paint on canvasSold at auction for £2,072,000
Michael Armitage (1984)
Early Portrait (Friend from Bryanston), 2001Oil on canvas, 198 x 134.5 cms
Sold at auction for £438,500
The Goodwin Carpet
An important and rare George II needlework carpetDated May 1737 to May 1745
112 1/2 x 90 inches
Sold privately to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807)
Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, as Muse of ComedySigned and dated: ‘Angelica Kauffman
Pinx: Romae. 1791’
Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cms
Sold to a private collection
Frank Dobson
Female Torso, 1926, red sandstoneHeight: 17 inches
Sold at auction for a world record price for the artist of £2,041,750
Samuel Palmer (1805-81)
Landscape – TwilightOil and tempera on paper laid down on panel
26.5 x 38 cms, 10 1/2 x 15 inches
Painted in the early 1830s
Sold to a private collection
Gaspar Vanvitelli (1652/53-1736)
Gaspar Vanvitelli (1652/53-1736)The Mollo, Venice, looking west towards the Grand Canal, 1712
Oil on canvas, 56.8 x 109.8 cms
Sold at auction for £1,582,500
A Meissen white porcelain model of a hen with her chicks
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler34.5 cms high
Sold to a private collection
Isaac Oliver, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (c.1582-1642)
Watercolour on vellum, 7 1/8 x 9 inchesThe figure of Lord Herbert, reclining in a verdant landscape, with its connotations of chivalry and romance, possesses a poetic lyricism that places it at the pinnacle of Jacobean art. Sold to the National Trust with the aid of grants from the Art Fund and the National Heritage Memorial Fund. It will go on display at Powis Castle.
John Constable (1776-1837)
Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows, 1831 (detail)Oil on canvas, 151.8 x 189.9 cms
Sold by private treaty sale, for £23.1 million with tax concessions, to Tate and the Aspire Partnership.
One of a pair of Italian pietre dure table tops made in the Grand Ducal Workshops (Opificio delle Pietre Dure), Florence
c.1775-1786, after designs by Antonio CiociSold to an overseas buyer for £1,500,000
A Mellerio lilac flower brooch, 1862
13 x 7.5 cms
Exhibited at the International Exhibition, London, 1862
A private sale
A portrait head of the Emperor Commodus (161-192 AD)
Roman, c.190-192 ADMarble head attached to a coloured 17th century marble bust
Height: 71 cms
Sold to a private buyer
Jan Siberechts (1627-1703)
View of Chatsworth from the south-east c.1703Oil on canvas, 119 x 124 ins
Sold to Chatsworth House
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
A SiestaWatercolour on paper, 40.6 x 53.3 cms
Sold to a private collector
The Granville Archive
An important archive of political and personal correspondence from 18th and 19th centuriesSold to the British Library