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Landscape painter, Painter, b. 1760 - d. 1820

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    • Laking, Sir Guy Francis
      Mar. 22, 2024

      Laking, Sir Guy Francis

      Est: €400 - €800

      dating: 1920-1922 provenance: London, 'A Record of European Armour and Arms through seven Centuries'; G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, MCMXX-MCMXXII, approx. 1700 pages divided in five volumes with lots of b/w illustrations. Canvas hard covers with gold titles and with original dust jacket. Rare. height 32 cm.

      Czerny's International Auction House
    • Laking, Sir Guy Francis
      Sep. 21, 2023

      Laking, Sir Guy Francis

      Est: €500 - €750

      dating: 1920-1922 provenance: London, 'A Record of European Armour and Arms through seven Centuries'; G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, MCMXX-MCMXXII, approx. 1700 pages divided in five volumes with lots of b/w illustrations. Canvas hardcovers with gilt titles. Scarce. height 32 cm.

      Czerny's International Auction House
    • Laking, Sir Guy Francis
      Sep. 14, 2019

      Laking, Sir Guy Francis

      Est: €150 - €250

      dating: 1920-1922 provenance: London, 'A Record of European Armour and Arms through seven Centuries'; G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, MCMXX-MCMXXII, ca 1700 pages divided in five volumes with lots of b/w illustrations. Canvas hardcovers with gilt titles. Scarce. height 32 cm.

      Czerny's International Auction House
    • Laking, Guy Francis
      Mar. 23, 2018

      Laking, Guy Francis

      Est: €40 - €80

      dating: 1920 provenance: London, 'A record of European Armour and Arms', Vol. III. London, Bell and Sons, MCMXX. 358 pages with numerous b/w illustrations including horse equipment. Typical, canvas binding with golden title. height 32 cm.

      Czerny's International Auction House
    • Francis Guy (1760-1820) study for winter in
      Apr. 14, 2008

      Francis Guy (1760-1820) study for winter in

      Est: $40,000 - $60,000

      Attributed to Francis Guy (1760-1820) study for winter in brooklyn Unsigned, oil on canvas, framed. 16 x 20 1/4 in. PROVENANCE: Robert Bishop, New York, New York Collection of actor Brian Bedford

      Freeman's
    • FRANCIS GUY (1760-1820)
      Nov. 30, 2005

      FRANCIS GUY (1760-1820)

      Est: $200,000 - $300,000

      PROPERTY FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS WINTER SCENE IN BROOKLYN measurements 41 by 64 1/2 inches alternate measurements (104.1 by 163.8 cm) oil on canvas Painted circa 1817-20. PROVENANCE Estate of the artist The artist's wife (sold: New York, 1824, Sale of 62 Landscapes by Francis Guy on the order of Mrs. Guy, the artist's wife, cat. no. 39 Mr. Henry (acquired at the above sale), 1824 Philip Grogan's New Bank Oyster House, Brooklyn, New York, by 1869 Mr. Gordon L. Ford, Brooklyn, New York By descent in the family Gift to the present owner from the above, circa 1900 EXHIBITED Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, Regional American Painting to 1920, November-December 1990 LITERATURE Henry R. Stiles, A History of the City of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, 1869, V. 2, pp. 99-105 NOTE Francis Guy, one of the earliest landscape and genre painters in America, arrived in the United States from England in 1795. After an initial stay in New York, Guy moved to Baltimore and established a silk-dying business, a trade in which he had achieved considerable success in London some years earlier. In 1799, when his business was destroyed by a fire, Guy turned full time to painting. William H. Gerdts writes, "by 1800 he was advertising the public display of his frescoes in James Bryden's popular Exchange Coffee House, a continuous exhibition strategically located for attracting prospective clients. As early as 1803 Guy was a pioneer, not only in Baltimore but nationally, in arranging for exhibitions and auctions of his own works....Guy continued as Baltimore's principal landscape painter until he moved to Brooklyn in 1817, and even as late as 1819 he held one last exhibition in his former city of residence" (Art Across America, New York, 1990, v. 1, pp. 323-324). In his studio on Front Street, Guy painted a series of views of the neighborhood surrounding his Brooklyn home. The New York Public Library's Winter Scene in Brooklyn is most likely Guy's first picture of the series. According to the historian Henry R. Stiles, the artist's widow sold sixty-two of Guy's works at an auction on Wall Street in New York. The auction catalogue notes that Winter Scene in Brooklyn, No. 39, "was undoubtedly the first sketch of the scene, being entirely without figures" (A History of the City of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, 1869, vol. 2, p. 104). Stiles also observed that the scene depicts "the most important and compact portion of Brooklyn as it stood in 1820. [It] will forever be invaluable as exhibiting the architectural character of the village at that period; and, in some degree for half a century previous" ( pp. 99-100). Perhaps the best known composition of the buildings and residences in the artist's Brooklyn community is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum (figure 1). An 1853 copy of Guy's painting hangs in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York: "the scene depicts Front Street from Main Street (on the left) to Fulton (on the right), an area now partially covered by approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge and a section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. A few blocks inland from the East River and the Fulton Ferry slip, this picturesque neighborhood occupied land that was once part of a farm belonging to a Loyalist family named Rapalje. It was next used as the British Quartermaster's Yard during the Revolution and then, after the introduction of the Brooklyn-Manhattan ferry service in the second decade of the nineteenth century, became known as the ferry district of the village of Brooklyn.... the architectural character exhibited here reveals a place in transition from an eighteenth-century village with an eclectic, irregular arrangement of buildings--including a farm, substantial Federal-style homes, and mix-use buildings providing both living and business--to a more modern, more urbanized town...." During the early 19th century, many of the most significant buildings in Brooklyn were situated on Front Street. Stiles developed a key (figure 2) for Winter Scene in Brooklyn, which identifies the structures surrounding the artist's studio. It is likely that Stiles gathered this information from Thomas W. Birdsall, whose residence and store is the yellow two-story structure seen at the far right of the composition (figure 2, no. 1). In the center of the composition is the barn and slaughterhouse of Abiel Titus (figure 2, no. 9); his home is the large structure across the yard to the right (figure 2, no. 2). Across the street to the left of Titus' barn is the home and carpenter shop belonging to Benjamin Meeker (figure 2, no. 10).

      Sotheby's
    • FRANCIS GUY (1760-1820)Brooklyn in Winteroil on canvas38 1/2 x 48 3/4 in.
      May. 28, 1992

      FRANCIS GUY (1760-1820)Brooklyn in Winteroil on canvas38 1/2 x 48 3/4 in.

      Est: $50,000 - $70,000

      (98 x 124 cm.)PROVENANCEThe Rogers Family, New YorkAbraham and Sarah Post, Long IslandVictor Spark, New YorkJoseph Katz, BaltimoreLITERATURES. T. Colwill, Francis Guy: 1760-1820, Baltimore, 1981, p. 71, no. 25, illus.Francis Guy was born in England and at an early age developed a taste for art. However, with an eye toward practicality, his early career abroad was devoted to tailoring and fabric glazing. In fact, he developed such a fine reputation that he was appointed dyer and calender to the Queen. Financial difficulties eventually forced Guy to relocate, and he emigrated to New York in 1795. He settled in Brooklyn where he attempted to take up the silk dyeing trade, but again because of lack of funds, he moved to Baltimore where he engaged in various vocations including that of dentist, minister, furniture decorator of Finlay furniture, and landscape painter. Many tradesmen of the period were likewise entrepreneurial, and Guy was more creative than most. As an artist, he developed a picturesque style which he portrayed in numerous views of Baltimore. Documents of the City's architecture, they are obviously an extension of his interest in the decorative arts.For whatever reason, Guy returned to Brooklyn circa 1817 and soon thereafter painted one of his most important works, Brooklyn Snow Piece (1818) now in the collection of The Brooklyn Museum. One of the monumental works of nineteenth-century painting and representative of his mature style, this painting captures urban life of the period as well as various landmarks in Brooklyn. Guy painted three other versions of this scene; one with figures, which is now in the Brooklyn Club; two without figures, this example and one in the collection of the New York Public Library.

      Christie's
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