{"id":56197,"date":"2025-03-27T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56197"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:51:30","slug":"bonhams-19th-century-british-impressionist-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/bonhams-19th-century-british-impressionist-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonhams 19th-Century &#038; British Impressionist Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56198\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lewis-A-Reception-scaled-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56198\" class=\"wp-image-56198\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lewis-A-Reception-scaled-1-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a Turkish harem, showing a group of women in Middle Eastern robes.\" width=\"268\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lewis-A-Reception-scaled-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lewis-A-Reception-scaled-1-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lewis-A-Reception-scaled-1-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lewis-A-Reception-scaled-1-1536x1102.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lewis-A-Reception-scaled-1-2048x1469.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Reception in the Harem<\/em> by John Frederick Lewis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Wednesday, March 26th, Bonhams\u2019 sale room at New Bond Street, London, hosted their 19th-Century and British Impressionist art sale, featuring works by Heywood Hardy, Rudolf Ernst, Sir Alfred Munnings, and Dame Laura Knight. However, the works of the orientalist painter John Frederick Lewis seemed to have been the fixation of many buyers on Wednesday. His 1873 watercolor <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A Reception in the Harem<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> made its first appearance at auction in fifty-eight years at Bonhams on Wednesday. They expected it to do well since not only was the Turkish harem an incredibly popular subject for Western European Orientalist artists, but Lewis, in particular, was one of the more culturally sensitive painters active in the genre in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As I previously noted in my writings <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/08\/orientalism-harmless-or-problematic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">discussing the problematic nature of some Orientalist art<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Lewis stood out among his contemporaries in that he lived in Cairo for close to a decade. There, he <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">made an effort<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to paint genre scenes and slices of daily life in the region, representing its people and customs as accurately as possible. Bonhams predicted the watercolor would sell <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">for<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> between \u00a3650K and \u00a3850K. The bidding pushed <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">up<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the final hammer price slightly over, with the work selling for \u00a3900K \/ $1.16 million (or \u00a31.14 million \/ $1.47 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56199\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lewisHagiaSophia.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56199\" class=\"wp-image-56199\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lewisHagiaSophia-300x205.webp\" alt=\"A watercolor showing the interior of the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul.\" width=\"252\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lewisHagiaSophia-300x205.webp 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lewisHagiaSophia-1024x699.webp 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lewisHagiaSophia-768x524.webp 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lewisHagiaSophia-1536x1048.webp 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/lewisHagiaSophia-2048x1398.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Interior of the Hagia Sophia<\/em> by John Frederick Lewis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Immediately after the harem scene, another one of Lewis\u2019s works crossed the block, this time a watercolor and pencil work showing the interior of the Hagia Sophia. While mosques were popular subjects for Orientalist artists as a way to show Islamic piety, very rarely do we see specific mosques in paintings. The Hagia Sophia, however, is one of the world\u2019s most famous Islamic religious sites. Originally built as a Byzantine church, it has been one of Istanbul\u2019s most famous buildings for over 1,600 years. Depictions of actual mosques are so rare because, at the time, it <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was considered<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> distasteful (and in some places <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">actually<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> prohibited) for non-Muslims to step foot inside without express permission of local authorities. While visiting Turkey in 1840, Lewis accompanied the British aristocrat Lady Londonderry on her tour of Istanbul\u2019s religious sites, meaning that he had permission to enter the Hagia Sophia. The work\u2019s rarity made it very popular with buyers on Wednesday, with successive bids pushing it to two-and-a-half times its \u00a360K high estimate, hammering at \u00a3150K \/ $193.3K (or \u00a3190.9K \/ $245.9K w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56200\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-scaled.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56200\" class=\"wp-image-56200\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-266x300.webp\" alt=\"A 19th century portrait of a woman in medieval robes holding flowers in one hand and a mirror in the other.\" width=\"232\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-266x300.webp 266w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-908x1024.webp 908w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-768x866.webp 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-1362x1536.webp 1362w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-1816x2048.webp 1816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mia suora Rachel<\/em> by Marie Spartali Stillman<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Two works ended up tied for third at Bonhams. Moving away from the Orientalist paintings, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mia suora Rachel<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Marie Spartali Stillman has all the characteristic hallmarks of a Pre-Raphaelite portrait, including the medieval robes, the use of flowers, and an accompanying line originally from Dante\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Divine Comedy<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">: \u201c<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ma mia suora Rachele mai non si smaga dal suo miraglio, e siede tutto giorno<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201d, or \u201cBut my sister Rachel never leaves her looking glass, and sits all day long\u201d. While the central figure looking into a mirror may suggest vanity, the Dante reference indicates it is a scene of self-reflection. Sharing third place with the Stillman was a landscape by the great French Barbizon painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Souvenir de la Rotte, pr\u00e8s Rotterdam<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> shows the River Rotte leading from the Dutch countryside into the city of Rotterdam. The painting has a provenance somewhat typical of a Corot landscape, including Georges Bernheim, Galerie Georges Petit, and Knoedler. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">being<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> featured<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> at Bonhams on Wednesday marked the work\u2019s first auction appearance in over twenty years. It\u2019s last time crossing the block saw it sell at Christie\u2019s New York for $147K w\/p. The Stillman and the Corot each sold for \u00a3110K \/ $141.7K (or \u00a3140.1K \/ $180.5K w\/p), the former selling for slightly over its \u00a3100K low estimate and the latter selling for slightly below its \u00a3120K estimate. While this was only a moderate improvement from the Corot\u2019s previous auction appearance, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mia suora Rachel<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> became one of the top five most expensive works by Stillman ever sold at auction.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56202\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CorotRotte.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56202\" class=\"wp-image-56202\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CorotRotte-300x207.webp\" alt=\"A landscape showing a river surrounded by trees leading off into a town.\" width=\"271\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CorotRotte-300x207.webp 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CorotRotte-1024x707.webp 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CorotRotte-768x530.webp 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CorotRotte-1536x1060.webp 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CorotRotte-2048x1414.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Souvenir de la Rotte, pr\u00e8s Rotterdam<\/em> by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Despite these successes, unfortunately, the sale <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">fell<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> short because of one lot\u2019s failure. Along with John Frederick Lewis, one of the most prominent Orientalist artists who remained respectful of their subjects was the Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey. His painting, <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bonhams.com\/_next\/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2025-02%2F27%2F25622046-1-11.jpg&amp;w=2400&amp;q=75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Hearth<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, has never been seen on the secondary market. It had been in the same family since <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">1910,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> after being purchased from the artist. While many European artists chose to depict scenes from the Ottoman harems for erotic titillation, Hamdi sought to push back against harmful Western clich\u00e9s of Middle Eastern people by showing more realistic representations of harem life. Nothing is<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0explicitly sexual about a wife serving her husband coffee, and the attention to detail in the decorative items like the coffee pot, plates, vases, and inkwells shows dedication to showing how an actual Turkish home may look. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Hearth<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is one of Hamdi\u2019s earlier works, created in 1879 in the final years of his time in the Ottoman bureaucracy. As one of the artist\u2019s earlier genre scenes, Bonhams\u2019 specialists assigned the Hamdi an astounding estimate range of \u00a31.2 million to \u00a31.8 million. The respective minimum estimates of just Hamdi and the Lewis harem scene <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">comprised<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> 60% of the total minimum presale estimate. When the Hamdi failed to garner enough interest from buyers, the sale was toast. Despite twenty-three of sixty-nine lots selling within their estimates, giving Bonhams\u2019 specialists a 33% accuracy rate, the failure of the Hamdi tanked the total. With ten lots selling below their estimates and seventeen selling for above, Bonhams achieved a 72% accuracy rate. Against the total low estimate of \u00a33.1 million, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Hearth<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> going unsold brought the total down to \u00a32.12 million \/ $2.7 million.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, March 26th, Bonhams\u2019 sale room at New Bond Street, London, hosted their 19th-Century and British Impressionist art sale, featuring works by Heywood Hardy, Rudolf Ernst, Sir Alfred Munnings, and Dame Laura Knight. 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