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july 03, 2015 - Sotheby
Sotheby’s to Offer Selected Works from one of Britain’s Greatest Stately Homes - Castle Howard
This summer, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a group of works from the collections of Castle Howard, one of Britain’s greatest and most beautiful country houses. Set in the rolling Howardian Hills of North Yorkshire, and designed by the architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh in 1699, the exuberant facades and interiors of Castle Howard are familiar the world over as the backdrop to TV drama Brideshead Revisited and Stanley Kubrick'ʹs Barry Lyndon. The grandeur of the house -‐‑ perfectly captured in Horace Walpole’s words above -‐‑ is echoed by the magnificent collections of antiquities, paintings, furniture and worksof art that have graced its interiors for nearly three centuries.
Reflecting both the history of the house and the tastes of the extraordinary men who built and shaped its collections, the works to be offered at Sotheby’s span a range of periods and media, from Roman antiquities to Old Master paintings and 17th-‐‑century Italian furniture. They will be offered, on behalf of the Trustees of Castle Howard, in Sotheby’s London Old Masters and Treasures sales in London on 8th July, with a combined estimate in excess of £10 million.
Speaking of the sale, the Hon. Nicholas Howard said: “I am privileged to be able to say that Castle Howard is my family’s heritage and has been since it was built over 300 years ago. With that privilege comes the responsibility of ownership, and the Trustees’ unanimous decision to hold this sale is the exercise of that responsibility. If the sale helps to secure that heritage as the house moves into its fourth century then it will have achieved its goal. To this end, we have selected for sale at Sotheby’s a small number of works which, while of great intrinsic interest, have been carefully chosen so as not to detract from the overall integrity of the collection.”
The Hon. Simon Howard added: "ʺRunning Castle Howard for the last 30 years has been an immense privilege. Now, as a new chapter in its history opens, the sales that we are planning at Sotheby'ʹs will make an important contribution to the long term future of the Castle Howard estate and collections."ʺ
Henry Wyndham, Chairman, Sotheby’s Europe commented: “The collections at Castle Howard chart two millennia of history and 300 years of collecting, and rank among the finest private art collections in the world. The carefully selected group of works to be auctioned this summer is testament to the taste of a series of enlightened art patrons, starting with the visionary 3rd Earl of Carlisle, and continuing through his Romanophile son, Henry, collector of antiquities and Venetian vedute, to his diplomat grandson Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle, who is thought by many to have been the most refined English collector of the period around 1800."ʺ
For generations, members of the Howard family have been among the leading patrons and collectors of their time, making the Howard family one of the most important collecting dynasties in Britain. The tradition began with the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, whose vision and daring resulted in the building of the family’s magnificent Yorkshire home. It has continued ever since, with each subsequent generation contributing in its own particular way to the magnificence and breadth of the overall collection.
Many of the works to be offered
are particularly reminiscent of one of the most critical eras in European cultural history – that of the ‘Grand Tour’. While the Grand Tour was undertaken almost de rigueur by 18th-‐‑century young men of social standing, for the 3rd and 4th Earls of Carlisle it was an experience that was ultimately to place them among the most important art patrons of their times.
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (1669-‐‑1738), whose architectural vision led to the building of Castle Howard, travelled to Italy in the late 1680s. Inspired by what he saw, some thirty years later he proved an enthusiastic patron of Venetian painters Antonio Pellegrini and Marco Ricci, who were commissioned to decorate his splendid new house. Henry Howard, the 4th Earl (1694-‐‑1758), shared his father’s passion for Italy, and for Venetian art in particular. Over the course of two extensive sojourns in Italy, he acquired significant quantities of important Roman furniture, antiquities, gems and – perhaps most importantly of all – Venetian pictures. This summer’s sales will be led by Italian masterpieces that entered Castle Howard’s collections after his second Grand Tour in 1738-‐‑39.
Bust of Anne of Austria
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Castle Howard Installation - A Sotheby's technician prepares to hang work by Belotto alongside painting of Henry VIII and portrait by Bol
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Castle Howard Installation - Workshop of Holbein , Bol and Bellotto
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Castle Howard Installation - Workshop of Holbein , Bol, Bust of a Nobleman and Bellotto. 1
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Castle Howard Installation - Workshop of Holbein , Bol, Bust of a Nobleman and Bellotto. 2
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Castle Howard Installation - Workshop of Holbein , Bol, Bust of a Nobleman and Bellotto. 3
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Castle Howard Installation - Workshop of Holbein and Bol
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Castle Howard Installation - Workshop of Holbein
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Castle Howard Installation -Bust of a nobleman, Bol and Bellotto
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Florentine Bust of a Nobleman
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Granite vase, from Roman Egypt, circa 1st Century B.C
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Jacopo Sansovino
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Lot 11 - Bol
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Lot 21 - Bellotto
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Lot 52 - Lawrence
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Lot 7 - Workshop of Holbein
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Pietre Dure Cabinets Interior Shot
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Pietre Dure Cabinets
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Sansovino Interior Shot
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