Sotheby's Old Master catalogue
November 6 2014
Picture: Sotheby's
The catalogue for Sotheby's London evening Old Master sale has gone online. Highlights include a £5m-£7m Canaletto, and the above Turner being sold by the Earl of Rosebery with an estimate of £15m-£20m (that's more, by the way, than the entire budget for the new film 'Mr Turner'). For the latter, there's an excellent catalogue note by Sotheby's specialist Julian Gascoigne.
In 2010, the Getty bought the last major Turner of Rome on the market, also sold by Lord Rosebery at Sotheby's, for £29.7m. Will they buy this one too?
Also interesting is the below c.1662 depiction of Llanerch Park in Denbighshire which, say Sotheby's, is likely to be 'the earliest topographical birds-eye view of a British estate'. The estimate is £400,000-£600,000.
