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  • JMW Turner
    • The Windus Turner Collection >
      • Picturesque views >
        • England and Wales >
          • Charles Heath
          • Carisbrooke Castle
          • Richmond from the moors
          • Straits of Dover
        • Southern Coast >
          • Brighthelmston, Sussex
      • The Epicurean
      • Finden's Lord Byron
      • The Keepsake
      • Walter Scott >
        • Abbotsford
      • Later large watercolours
      • Marine Views (unpublished series)
    • Turner collection recreated >
      • Frames
      • Still framed?
      • The Windus Commissions
    • Turner oil paintings in the Collection >
      • Calais sands
      • The Tondos
      • Going to the ball
      • Later paintings
    • Letters to Windus
    • Turner Bequests: Henry Vaughan
    • Twickenham home
    • The Eccentric Mr Turner
    • Talks on Turner in Tottenham
  • PRB
    • Ford Madox Brown
    • Holman Hunt
    • Millais
    • Rossetti
    • Ruskin and the PRB
  • & Others
    • Blake
    • Frederick Leighton
    • Thomas Girtin
  • BG Windus
    • The Library
    • Family & inheritance >
      • Ansley Windus
      • Thomas Windus
    • Landowner
    • Places >
      • All Hallows >
        • William Bedwell
      • Holy Trinity
      • Old Well, Tottenham Green
      • Tottenham High Cross
      • Rodmell, East Sussex
    • People >
      • EH Baily RA
      • John Constable
      • Rowland Hill
      • William Hobson >
        • Defence of the Realm
      • Luke Howard
      • Priscilla Wakefield
Catalogue of the most IMPORTANT PORTION
of
THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION
OF

 English Pictures
Formed with well-known Taste and Judgement,
BY THAT DISTINGUISHED AMATEUR,
BENJAMIN GODFREY WINDUS, Esq.
Of Tottenham:
which
Will be Sold by Auction, by
Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods,
AT THEIR GREAT ROOMS,
8, King Street, St James’s Square,
On SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1862,
AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY
-0-
May be publicly viewed Three days preceding, and Catalogues had, at
Messrs. CHRISTIE, MANSON AND WOODS’ Offices, 8 King Street, St James’s Square, SW
1 T Stothard RA  A christening
2 T Stothard RA  Amy Robsart
3 JE Millais ARA 1849The Woodman’s daughter
4 and another illustration of the same story
5 T Stothard RA Queen Elizabeth entering Kenilworth
6 T Stothard RA A scene from ‘The two gentlemen of Verona’
 
7 JE Millais Head of a Lady
8 W Holman Hunt The Sphinx
9 T Stothard RA Chaucer, the Nun and the Priest
10 Arthur Hughes The knight in the sun A beautiful finished study in water colours, for the large picture in oils formerly in Mr Plint’s Collection
11 D Maclise RA Youthful gallantry A very fine work, exquisitely finished and beautifully coloured
 
PICTURES
12 WJ Grant Madame Palissy’s last trials
13 Ford Madox Brown 1858 “Out of town’
14 WJ Webbe 1854 A hedge-bank in May  ital Exhibited at the British Institution
15 Davis (of Liverpool) A landscape
16 R Leighton Samson and Delilah  ital a sketch for the large picture
17 Ford Madox Brown Wycliffe reading his translation of the Scriptures before John of Gaunt a sketch for the large picture
18 Sir A W Callcott RA Milton composing Paradise Lost A fine finished sketch for the large picture
19 R Smirke RA Charles I in prison
20 CR Leslie RA An illustration to Henry V
21 R Smirke Three illustrations to Shakespeare - in grisaille - in one frame
22 JE Millais A pastoral a sketch
23 F Leighton The garden of the inn at Capri Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1861
24 WJ Grant Hotspur dreaming
 
25 J Holland Verona 1838
26 Ford Madox Brown Pretty Ba-Lambs 1852
27 R Westall A sleeping bacchante, in a landscape A very fine example
28 JE Millais Portrait of a lady in a garden
29 F Leighton Stella A beautiful study from life, painted at Rome, and never before exhibited
30 F Leighton Tolla - the companion Equally fine; also painted at Rome
31 RP Bonington The Indian Maid A beautiful cabinet work
32 T Unwins The Tarantula A beautiful finished sketch for the large picture 1836 RA
33 T Creswick RA A woody river-scene RA
 
34 JE Millais Wandering thoughts An exquisite cabinet work; never exhibited
35 W Holman Hunt The scapegoat The original sketch for the celebrated picture No 56 in this collection
36 WJ Grant Mozart composing his requiem A small finished study
37 Ford Madox Ford Carrying corn A fine sketch
38 Arthur Hughes Amy
39 WJ Webbe A study of strawberries Exhibited at the British Institution 1859
40 F Leighton Count Paris A sketch for the large picture
41 F Leighton Romeo and Juliet A sketch for a large picture
 
42 WJ Grant Henry VIII’s first interview with Anne Boleyn A beautiful study
43 Ford Madox Brown Goneril and Regan 1854
44 Arthur Hughes Pansies Never exhibited 1860
45 WJ Webbe Peaches and plums 1860
46 JE Millais The Bride Splendidly coloured and exquisitely finished; never exhibited 1851
47 WJ Grant A legend of the first efforts in painting   A charming cabinet work
48 Ford Madox Brown King Lear - Scene vii, act 4 Very richly coloured
49 Sandys Ruth An exquisitely finished work
50 WJ Grant Eugene Beauharnois refusing to give up his father’s sword
 
51 F Leighton La Nana A beautiful work, exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1859
52 A Egg Buckingham rebuffed A fine finished sketch for the celebrated picture   non i1846
53 JE Millais Isabella
            “Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!
            Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love’s eye!
            They could not in the self-same mansion dwell
             Without some stir of heart, some malady;
             They could not sit at meals but feel how well
             It soothed each to be the other by"
           
            “These brethren having found by many signs
            What love Lorenzo for their sister had,
            And how she lov’d him too, each unconfines
            His bitter thoughts to other, well nigh mad
            That he, the servant of their trade designs
            Should in their sister’s love be blithe and glad
            When ‘twas their plan to coax her by degrees
            To some high noble, and his olive trees” - Keats
This celebrated picture formed one of the chief attractions of the Royal Academy in 1849
          
54 JE Millais Mariana
            “She only said, ‘My life is dreary,
            He cometh not! she said;
            She said ‘I am aweary, weary;
            I would that I were dead! - Tennyson
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851

55 JE Millais Ophelia 
            “There, on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds,
              Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
              When down her weedy trophies and herself
              Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
             And mermaid-like a while they bore her up,
             Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds
             As one incapable of her own distress,
             Or like a creature native and indued
             Unto that element. But long it could not be
            Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
            Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
           To muddy death” - Hamlet, act iv
The celebrated picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1852; and at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1855

56 W Holman Hunt The Scapegoat  See Leviticus, chap, xvi, The scene was pained at Oosdoom, on the margin of the salt-encrusted shallows of the Dead Sea. The mountains beyond are those of Eom.
           “While the ceremonies of the Day of Atonement were in progress in the Temple, after the lots had been cast which had devoted on eo fhb tow boats for the Lord, and while it was being sacrificed as a burnt-offering, the congregation present manifested their impatience by calling upon the priest to hasten the departure of the scapegoat ... by priests in the Temple”
See the Talmud.
 
The celebrated engraved picture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856.
JMW Turner The Dawn of Christianity “Flight into Egypt” “The Star has risen.” - The Rev T Gisborne’s Walks in a Forest. Exhibited at the Royal Academy 1841. No 532
JMW Turner Glaucus and Scylla - painted on panel; from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841 No. 542
 
57 T Stothard “Sans souci” One of the finest works of the master - Exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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