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Lot 27*

Sir William Beechey
(Burford 1753-1839 Hampstead)
The three Vandergucht children with a kite in a wooded landscape

6 December 2017, 15:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Sir William Beechey (Burford 1753-1839 Hampstead)

The three Vandergucht children with a kite in a wooded landscape
oil on canvas
35 x 30cm (13 3/4 x 11 13/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
With Newhouse Galleries, New York (according to a label on the reverse)
Private Collection, Texas

Beechey was highly valued for his portraits of groups of siblings in landscapes, very often with the boy depicted in a striking red outfit, such as in his portrait of Sir Francis Ford's children in Tate, London, and The Shelly Children in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Sir Joshua Reynolds painted two of the children of Benjamin Vandergucht 1753-94), a painter of portraits and theatrical scenes who also worked as a dealer and picture-cleaner.

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