{"id":57511,"date":"2026-04-21T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=57511"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:53:27","slug":"sothebys-london-old-masters-19th-century-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2026\/04\/sothebys-london-old-masters-19th-century-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby&#8217;s London Old Masters &#038; 19th Century Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57512\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-152126.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57512\" class=\"wp-image-57512 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-152126-233x300.png\" alt=\"A painting of some men standing on a roof with the sea in the background.\" width=\"222\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-152126-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-15-152126.png 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Turks Conversing by the Black Sea at Sunset<\/em> by Ivan Aivazovsky<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Wednesday, April 15th, Sotheby&#8217;s London hosted their Old Master &amp; Nineteenth-Century Paintings sale. Though hosted entirely online, the auction garnered substantial attention, which has unfortunately become a bit of a rarity in the markets for these works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Of course, the expected stars of the sale were a pair of paintings by the great nineteenth-century seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky. Aivazovsky\u2019s life and work have been the subject of discussion due to his complex identity. He was ethnically Armenian but was born and lived in Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. Though considered unambiguously Russian for decades, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to more widespread recognition of Ukraine\u2019s national identity as distinct. Therefore, some artists long considered Russian have been <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/02\/the-met-recognizes-ukraines-cultural-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">hailed as symbols of Ukrainian culture<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Aivazovsky, spending most of his life in Crimea, has been an example of this. But the auction\u2019s top lot, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Turks Conversing by the Black Sea at Sunset<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, is not exemplary of the artist\u2019s well-known work. Rather than enormous ocean swells and port cities, here the artist puts the water in the background. Instead, he gives us a genre painting. Aivazovsky shows several figures in Turkish dress standing together on a roof while a pair of women look out over the Black Sea from the structure\u2019s humble portico. The painting is not as meticulously detailed as the artist\u2019s other work, and there are some apparent condition issues. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Regardless, given Aivazovsky\u2019s popularity, Sotheby\u2019s <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">gave the painting<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> an estimate <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">range<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> of \u00a360K to \u00a380K.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Despite the issues, bidding on the painting sent the price soaring. When the time ran out, the final bid was \u00a3240K (or \u00a3307.2K \/ $416.3K w\/p), exactly three times the high estimate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57513\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aivazovsky-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57513\" class=\"wp-image-57513\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aivazovsky-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"A painting a carriage on a dirt road with the sun setting.\" width=\"251\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aivazovsky-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aivazovsky-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aivazovsky-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aivazovsky-1536x1135.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aivazovsky-2048x1514.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Troika at Sunset<\/em> by Ivan Aivazovsky<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Something similar happened to the other Aivazovsky painting available on Wednesday, titled <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Troika at Sunset<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The artist was known for his portrayal of skies, given their importance in maritime art. He often used the sun or moon to showcase his abilities at rendering light and color, as well as to provide a counterbalance in the upper half of a painting. Although he does not use the sea as a subject in <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Troika at Sunset<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Aivazovsky does the same here. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Troika<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is a Russian word meaning a trio of any kind, but in this case, it refers to a carriage pulled by three horses. The carriage speeds towards the horizon as the sun\u2019s orange glow is diffused through several layers of clouds and haze. It\u2019s a relatively small painting, measuring just over 9 by 12 inches, so Sotheby\u2019s expected it to sell for no more than \u00a360K. But yet again, bidding continued until the timer ran out at \u00a3160K (or \u00a3204.8K \/ $277.5K w\/p), or 2.7 times the high estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And finally, a rather unusual work by the eighteenth-century German-born British artist John Eckstein the Younger. The artist is mainly known as a portrait and genre painter, making the present painting rather strange. Titled <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Vices of the Day<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the work offered at Sotheby\u2019s seems more like an allegorical painting showing the different types of sin and social failings in the 1780s. These include slavery, poverty, murder, torture, public executions, drunkenness, gambling, dueling, war, and several others. It\u2019s not exactly a salon piece. It\u2019s closer to William Hogarth than Joshua Reynolds. This is likely why Sotheby\u2019s did not expect it to sell for more than \u00a38K. However, it is such a unique painting, something completely unheard of for someone exhibiting at the Royal Academy. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was likely the reason why buyers became interested, driving up the final price to \u00a370K (or \u00a389.6K \/ $121.4K w\/p). Eckstein\u2019s work is rather rare at auction, none of it selling in excess of \u00a310K, making the sale of <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Vices of the Day<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> rather exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57514\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57514\" class=\"wp-image-57514 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a large crowd.\" width=\"257\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-1536x1279.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-2048x1705.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Vices of the Day<\/em> by John Eckstein the Younger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Twenty of the one hundred seventy-five available lots sold for more than double their high estimates. Four lots sold for more than five times their estimates. The Eckstein was quite the surprise, yet there was one even bigger on Wednesday. <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9c2bd09\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5763x3879+0+0\/resize\/4096x2757!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F6c%2Fe5%2Fdcf480184b86acda086c109b6e02%2Fdg8rt-t2-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A relatively small study of clouds<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was estimated to sell at Sotheby\u2019s for between \u00a34K and \u00a36K. Measuring barely more than 9 by 14 inches, the painting by an unknown eighteenth-century British artist shows only a thin band of solid earth along the bottom, with a small farmhouse and windmill as the only interruptions to the horizon. It is in rather poor condition cosmetically, with plenty of surface dirt and yellowed varnish. However, Sotheby\u2019s states on the lot\u2019s webpage that it \u201cwould benefit from sensitive conservation.\u201d Inexplicably, the study proved popular with online bidders, and as the auction timer ran out, the painting sold for 10 times its initial high estimate: \u00a360K (or \u00a376.8K \/ $104.1K w\/p).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Of the one hundred seventy-five lots available on Wednesday, twenty-eight sold within their estimates, giving Sotheby\u2019s a 16% accuracy rate. A plurality of lots, seventy-two in total (41%), sold below their estimates. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> leaves forty-five lots (26%) selling above the estimate. With thirty lots going unsold, Sotheby\u2019s achieved an 83% sell-through rate. In this case, we saw something that, unfortunately, has become rare in the realm of Old Master and nineteenth-century painting sales. An auction that did exceptionally well, at least in terms of estimates versus total hammer price. Sotheby\u2019s anticipated the entire auction to bring in a total of \u00a31,801,700 at most. Given the success of the Aivazovsky paintings and several other lots, the total came to rest just slightly above that, at \u00a31,805,000. With fees, this comes out to \u00a32.3 million, or $4.1 million.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 15th, Sotheby&#8217;s London hosted their Old Master &amp; Nineteenth-Century Paintings sale. Though hosted entirely online, the auction garnered substantial attention, which has unfortunately become a bit of a rarity in the markets for these works. 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