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It is rare to find true primary source historical material. Thankfully it does happen, Time
Team find some most weeks! and here is a great example in our auction sale.
In these two early Victorian family portraits the artist, John Bridges has not only
produced strong figure studies which become family records, but has included a wealth
of historical information within the interiors, none more so than the inclusion of
a small circular continental stool which is featured in two family portraits, one
of 'Little Betsie' Spiers as a girl in fancy dress painted in 1845 and one
of Mrs Richard James Spiers with her baby son painted in 1836.
The stool could have been acquired on a Grand Tour or perhaps bought from an importer.
However it came to England it was surely an admired and treasured family possession
and to complete the historical circle the very same stool will be sold together
in the same sale as the two family portraits on 23 April 2009 in Exeter.
The portraits are estimates at £600-800 each and the stool is expected to make
£150-250
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Daniel Goddard is a Director of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood. He is also Head of Picture Department.
Daniel Goddard attended The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the US Military Academy at West Point and in 1982 was commissioned into the Queen's Regiment serving in Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Canada and the UK.
In 1988, he travelled to Auckland, New Zealand, to play rugby and attended The Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. On his return to the family home in East Devon, Daniel joined Lawrence's in Crewkerne (Somerset) as a porter and progressed to valuation and rostrum work.
In 1996, Daniel joined Bearne's to head the Works of Art Department and, having in the meantime gained an Open University degree in Art History and Humanities, became Head of the Picture Department. He continues to run this busy department in the merged firm of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.
Daniel Goddard has been a director of the firm since 1999 and is an experienced valuer with a broad range of knowledge and specialist expertise in paintings.
He has recently catalogued and organised two major sales of paintings by Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), which raised in excess of £3 million.
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