Adam's Country House Collections 18th & 19th October 2021

142 Country House Col lections 477A ATTRIBUTED TO SIR DAVID WILKIE RA (1785-1841) Portrait of Henry White Oil on panel, 43 x 32cm € 1,500 - 3,000 478 A GERMAN KINGWOOD VENEERED BUREAU EN PENTE, with three-quarter gallery, the shaped quarter-veneered slope concealing a fitted interior, the base with frieze draw- ers, flanked by pedestal cupboards, on short cabriole legs, the whole trimmed with ormolu foliate mounts, apparently retain- ing its original locks, key etc. 112cm wide, 96cm high, 50cm deep (closed) Provenance: Sir Andrew Mitchell, British Ambassador to Berlin and personal friend of Frederick the Great, thence by family descent until acquired by the vendor € 1,000 - 1,500 Day II LIVE AUCTION at 26 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2: Tuesday 19 th October 2021 starting at 11am 477 CAROLINE HAMILTON (1777-1861) ‘His Lordship’s Country Seat in the true Modern Taste’ A satirical landscape showing a coach and pair struggling up a hill to a ‘modern’ mansion Signed C. Hamilton decit 31st January 1798 Watercolour and collage, 33 x 43.5cm Nothing escapes Caroline’s acute eye. She quotes from the poet Cowper “Our father’s knew the value of a screen …” whilst here the elevated ‘post-modern’ block of a house receives windswept visi- tors, park trees struggle to grow, mature trees are cut down, the demesne is entered by a pretentious coronetted gateway whilst beyond is a thatched cottage. €1,000 – 1,500