Viscount Koudrey sell his estate and all its contents - including a rare portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, estimated at 4-6 million pounds, a record amount for the artist's works

Koudrey Manor Park Source: telegraph.co.uk

Koudrey Viscount (Viscount Cowdray) put up for sale his estate Koudrey Park. The mansion in 1908, acquired its ancestor Whitman Dickinson Pearson (Weetman Dickinson Pearson), First Lord of the Koudrey - the founder of the media group Pearson Plc (PSON). The current owners of the estate to keep it can not. After unsuccessful attempts to organize it in a hotel or conference center with the estate decided to sell about 25 million pounds.

books, clocks, rugs, and some other stuff (about 1000 objects), let auctioned off September 13-15, so to speak in native walls, not carried on a specialized area. The total estimate of these trades is 4 million pounds.

More than one million pounds of owners expect to get for the family silver - in particular, on July 7 in London Christie's auction buyers will offer wine accessories in gilded silver era of George III c upper estimate: 600 thousand pounds coming from Koudrey Park.

Paintings will be sold at auction Christie's «Old Masters" on July 5 in London: the hammer be allowed five creative British portraits. "This is one of the best portraits of the complexes on the art market over the past 50 years - believes the London dealer Mark Weiss (Mark Weiss). - This collection was collected in 1920-30-e, where many impoverished estates allowed under the hammer, while the rich bought most the best ».

Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Miss Reed, later Mrs. William Villebois. Around 1775-1777 fragment Source: telegraph.co . uk

most interesting work, certainly, "Portrait of Miss Reed, later Mrs. William Villebois" brush of Thomas Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough). The picture was painted about 1775-1777 years commissioned by the famous brewer Sir Benjamin Truman (Sir Benjamin Truman), Miss Reed was his granddaughter. This is one of the most important paintings in private hands Gainsborough. The public portrait did not show more than 75 years. Work assigned to record the works Gainsborough estimate - 6.4 million pounds.

At 1.5 million pounds rated "Portrait of Frances Howard, Countess of Hertford, later Duchess of Richmond and Lennox" brush Marcus Gerartsa Younger (Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger). The same number expect to get for "Portrait of William Pope, 1 Count Down", written by Robert Peak Senior (Robert Peake the Elder).

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