Samuel Pepys Cockerell collection to be offered for sale
The Arch of Titus at Rome looking towards the capital (lot 56) by Frederick Lee Bridell (1831-1863). Estimate £20,000-£30,000.
LONDON
.-Dreweatts will present a group of works directly from the family of the British artist Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844-1921). The works are coming to auction for the first time since leaving the artist s family collection and will be offered in Dreweatts upcoming Old Master, British and European Art sale on May 27, 2021.
The collection is led by a stunning portrait of Cockerell, by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) one of the leading portrait and Symbolist painters of the late 19th Century, known as `Englands Michelangelo.
When the nineteenth century was winding down, and she had become an old lady, Julia Ward Howe had her palm read by âan expert.â The reader traced the wrinkled lines and exclaimed, âYou inherit military blood; your hand shows it!â Possibly it did. Howe had martial forebears on both sides of her family. One was South Carolinaâs Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the celebrated âSwamp Foxâ who had bedeviled the British while hiding with his brave band of patriots in Low Country marshes.
Yet the lady with the pugnacious palm hated war. She had tried to organize mothers of the world against it, even to the point of holding a Womenâs Peace Congress and lobbying for a worldwide Motherâs Day fifty years before Anna Jarvis persuaded Woodrow Wilson to proclaim the second Sunday in May as such. Mrs. Jarvis wanted mothers memorialized; Mrs. Howe had wanted them mobilized.
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