Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Christie & Manson
Title:
Catalogue of the very celebrated collection of pictures, the works of the most distinguished modern English painters : formed by George Knott, Esq., Deceased, and removed from Bohun Lodge, East Burnet : also, some drawings, in water-colours : and a few pictures by Old Masters : which (by order of the Executors) will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, April the 26th, 1845, at one o'clock precisely.
Published / Created:
[London] : [Messrs. Christie & Manson], [1845]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages ; 25 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+ v. 12a no. 22 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/catalogueofverycel00chri
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Artists included in the sale are W. Derby, Oakley, Harding, Callow, Copley Fielding, Harding, Cattermole, Knight, F. Lee, W. Etty, J. C. Horsley, G. Jones, Redgrave, Creswick, C. R. Leslie, J. Webster, W. Collins, D. Roberts, F. R. Lee, Uwins, C. Stanfield, Aug Calcott, A. Cooper, A. E. Chalon, W. Mulready.

Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-5709

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 17751

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: April 26, 1845.

BAC: British Art Center copy is annotated in ink with prices and buyers' names for all lots. Number 22 of 37 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.
Subject Terms:
Knott, George, -1844 -- Art collection -- Catalogs. | Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Painting, British -- Catalogs. | Drawing, British -- Catalogs. | Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs.
Contributors:
Callcott, Augustus Wall, Sir, 1779–1844, artist. | Callow, William, 1812–1908, artist. | Cattermole, George, 1800–1868, artist. | Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780–1860, artist. | Collins, William, 1788–1847, artist. | Cooper, Abraham, 1787–1868, artist. | Creswick, Thomas, 1811–1869, artist. | Derby, William, 1786–1847, artist. | Etty, William, 1787–1849, artist. | Fielding, Copley, 1787–1855, artist. | Harding, Thomas Overbury, artist. | Horsley, John Callcott, 1817–1903, artist. | Jones, G., artist. | Knight, John Prescott, 1803–1881, artist. | Lee, Frederick Richard, 1798–1879, artist. | Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859, artist. | Mulready, William, 1786–1863, artist. | Oakley, Octavius, 1800–1867, artist. | Redgrave, Richard, 1804–1888, artist. | Roberts, David, 1796–1864, artist. | Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793–1867, artist. | Uwins, David, 1780–1837, artist. | Webster. Thomas, 1800–1866, artist.