Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

Catalogue of the Important Collection of Modern Pictures and Drawings … of G. R. Burnett, Esq.

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie’s, 21 and 23 March 1908

The sale took place over two days, 21 and 23 March 1908

Lugt, Catalogues, no.66310

Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

Day 1

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 30 – ‘Langdale Pikes and River Brathay, Cumberland’, 6 ¼ × 8 ½ in (15.9 × 21.6 cm). Bought by ‘Fletcher’ for £22 6s
  • 31 – ‘Neapolitan Coast’, 5 ½ × 9 ¾ in (14 × 24.8 cm). Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £28 6s

Day 2

Thomas Girtin

  • 206 – ‘A Landscape, with windmill’
  • 208 – ‘Boveney Church’, 9 ¾ × 6 ¾ in (24.8 × 17.2 cm). Bought by ‘Osmaston’ for £4 14s 6d (TG0253)
  • 209 – ‘A Gravel Pit near Burnley’, 10 ¾ × 16 in (27.3 × 40.6 cm). Bought by ‘Osmaston’ for £22 10s (TG1424). This was presumably a misprint for Bromley.

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