ADAM'S Country House Collections 15th October 2019

368 Country House Collections 621 GEORGE BLACKIE STICKS (BRITISH 1843 - 1938) Marsden Bay Beach, South Shields, England Oil on canvas, 61 x 104cm Signed and dated 1873 € 1,500 - 2,000 622 IRISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) Figures fishing by a lakeside, with cattle resting in the background Watercolour, 35 x 55cm € 300 - 500 623 HENRY RICHARD GRAVES (1818-1882) Portrait of Frederick, Earl of Belfast Oil on canvas, 43 x 36cm Inscribed verso on stretcher ‘Frederick Earl of Belfast by Hon. H. Graves 1851’ € 1,000 - 2,000 Frederick Richard Chichester (1827-53), called by courtesy Earl of Belfast, was the second son of George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegal and his first wife Lady Harriet Anne Butler. He was educated at Eton and was a highly artistic and gifted young man, passionate about literature and music. From an early age, he was composing music and eventually became President of the Classical Harmonists Society in Belfast in 1852.The proceeds of his earliest compositions, £100, were donated to a fund to assist in the relief of famine in Ireland, 1846-47. He was greatly interested in education in Belfast and gave a series of lectures on ‘Poets and Poetry of the 19th Century’ to the Belfast Working Classes’ Association (of which he was patron) in 1852. His health was not good and he spent the winter of 1852-53 on the Continent, dying in Naples in February 1853 aged only 26. His remains were later brought back to Belfast and were eventually placed in the Chapel of the Resurrection, near Belfast Castle. A statue of him stood in Wellington Place until 1875 and now in the City Hall. There are at least three other portraits of the sitter (a) by Orazio de Manara in the collection of the National Museums Northern Ireland (b) two by Richard Rothwell in Belfast City Hall and Ulster Museum respectively. There are portraits exhibited by Henry Richard Graves of the 6th Marquess of Londonderry at Mount Stewart, County Down and one of the Countess of Enniskillen at Florence Court, County Fermanagh-both National Trust properties. 624 AN AMERICAN GEORGE III MAHOGANY FOLDING-TOP CARD TABLE, of shaped rectangular form, with circular corners, above single frieze drawer with brass drop handle, with gate get action, raised on cabriole legs and claw and paw feet, the two front legs carved with shell motif. 84cm wide, 41cm deep, 73cm high € 2,000 - 3,000