SIR HENRY CHEERE (LONDON 1703-1781 LONDON)

Lot 7
06.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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£ 100 000
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ID 990537
Lot 7 | SIR HENRY CHEERE (LONDON 1703-1781 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 200 000
SIR HENRY CHEERE (LONDON 1703-1781 LONDON)

Venus and Vulcan

marble figures; each signed 'Cheere Fec.' to the base

21 5/8 in. (55 cm.) and 20 1/2 in. (52 cm.) high





Provenance

Almost certainly the marbles offered in the collection of Sir Robert Ainslie, bart.; Christie's London, 10 March 1809 (but seemingly offered on behalf of a different vendor, 'Hope'), lots 97 and 98, unsold.

Papworth House, Cambridgeshire until sold,

Anonymous Sale; Cheffins Cambridge; 12 February 2004, lot 474 (£450,000 hammer),

where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, 1965, p. 98 [probably].



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

M. Whinney, Sculpture in Britain 1530-1830, London, 1992, pp. 191-197.

T. Friedman and T. Clifford, The Man at Hyde Park Corner - Sculpture by John Cheere (1709-1787), Leeds, 1974, pp. 3-10.

M. Snodin ed, Rococo: Art and design in Hogarth's England, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984, pp. 278-309.

T. Clifford, ‘The Plaster Shops of the Rococo and Neo-Classical era in Britain’, Journal of the History of Collections, IV, January 1992, pp. 41 and 50.



Exhibited

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on loan, 2005-2007.
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