Fritz Wagner

Playing Cards

Oil on panel Panel size: 19.25 x 12.5 inches Framed size: 31.25 x 25.5 inches Signed lower left

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 20 x 30 inches Framed size: 28 x 36 inches Signed lower right

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 14.5 x 12 inches each Framed size: 21 x 19 inches each Signed upper

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 9.5 x 7 inches Framed size: 13.25 x 11 inches Signed upper right Provenance: Private collection, Herefordshire

James Hardy Jnr British, (1832-1889) Playing Cribbage Oil on panel, signed & dated (18)58 Image size: 11.5 inches x 14.5 inches Size including frame: 20.25 inches x 23.25 inches Provenance: Mr J Taylor Esq; F C Mander, purchased March 1907. A delightful genre painting of a family playing a game of cards by James Hardy Jnr. A group of people are depicted sitting at a table in front of a fireplace in a rustic interior, playing cribbage. As four of the players study their cards, a woman gets up to help another player with their hand. Meanwhile, a tan and white dog watches on with interest. The reverse of this painting includes a handwritten inscription which reads: ‘This painting was purchased by the late Mr Taylor for £40 and bought by me at Public Auction at Addison Hall for £45. March 1907. F. C. Mander’. Further research has discovered that a public auction of the collection of a Mr J Taylor Esq was held by his Executors on Tuesday 5 March 1907 at Addison Hall, Addison Road, Kensington. Details of the sale including a mention of a work on offer by J Hardy, appeared in the Kensington News and West London Times on Friday 1 March 1907. Messrs F C Mander & Co were listed as the auctioneers involved in the sale. Their address at the time was 296, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush. James Hardy Jnr was a genre and sporting painter born in Brighton, Sussex in 1832 into a family of artists. He was the son of the portrait and genre painter James Hardy (1801-1879) and his wife Elizabeth (née Vinson). His brothers David Hardy (1838-1870) and Heywood Hardy (1842-1933) and his sister Ada Hardy all became artists. His cousins Frederick Daniel Hardy...

A charming 20th century genre scene depicting 17th century merchants discussing tactics around a table. The warm, golden tones and careful attention to period furnishings, including ...

A Game Of Cards, 19th Century by Henry George Sharp (1834-1900) Large 19th Century interior scene of a St Bernard, Jack Russell Terrier and a King Charles Spaniel at a cards table...

Framed 21.50 x 25.75 in