A Golfers Gallery By Old Masters Album In Custom Clamshell
This lot features the famous ‘A Golfers Gallery by Old Masters,’ with Bernard Darwin introduction. This highly desired and seldom seen book includes eighteen (18) high quality color plates/prints of Old Masters golf paintings. Produced by London Country Life Ltd. and complete with a custom and expensive clam shell specifically made to house this highly collectible circa 1927 art gallery presentation book. The paintings depicting golfing scenes from the 16th through to the 19th centuries in different forms on card-stock leaves.
The book measures 16" x 13 1/2" and the illustrations include the following:
1. St. Nicholas’s Day by Jan Steen (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
2. A Girl with a Golf Club by an Unknown Netherlands Artist. Painted in 1595 (At Holdenby)
3. Mr. William Innes, Captain, The Royal Blackheath Golf Club, 1778 by Lemuel Francis Abbott, R.A.
4. Mr. Francis Bennoch, Captain, The Royal Bkackheath Golf Club, 1860-1861. From an oil painting at Blackheath (At the Club)
5. Pleasure on Ice by Esaias Van de Velde (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
6. A Frost Scene by Adriaen Van de Velde. Painted 1668 (At the National Gallery, London)
7. Winter Landscape by Aert Van Der Neer (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
8. Mr. John Taylor, Captain, The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers by Sir John Watson Gordon, P.R.S.A. (At the Club House, Muirfield, Gullane)
9. Mr. Henry Callender, Captain-General, The Royal Blackheath Golf Club 1807 by Lemuel Francis Abbott, R.A. (At the Club)
10. A Golfing Lady by Wybrand De Geest (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
11. A Young Dutch Golfer of the Seventeenth Century by A. Cuyp, 1650 (At West Dean Park, Chichester)
12. William St. Clair of Roslin, Captain, The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, 1761 by Sir George Chalmers (At the Hall of the Royal Company of Archers, Edinburgh)
13. The Macdonalds painted about 1750 (At Armadale Castle, Skye)
14. The Golf Players by Pieter de Hooch (In the Collection of the Hon. Mrs. Ronald Greville)
15. River Scene in Winter by Aert Van Der Neer (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
16. An Ice Scene by Antoine Van Straelen (In the collection of Mr. Frits Lugt Maartensdijk)
17. Winter Landscape by Esaias Van de Velde (At the Mauritshuis, The Hague)
18. “Old Alick,” Hole Cutter at Blackheath by Mr. Gallen of Greenwich School (At the Club). This is a major investment lot!
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