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- Estimate
- £3,000–£5,000 hammer ≈ $4,123–$6,872
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Old Master & British Works on Paper, London · 8 July 2021
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4942825
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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John Opie R.a., Portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802). Sotheby's, 8 Jul 2021, lot 187. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4942825.
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John Opie R.a., Portrait of Thomas Girtin (1775-1802). Sotheby's, 8 Jul 2021, lot 187. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4942825.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) | Edward Francis Burney | £500–£800 | |
| Four views of Venice: A) Piazza S. Marco dalla Basilica B) S. Pietro … | Carlo Grubacs | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| Annunciation to the Shepherds | — | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| A collection twenty-one portraits of members of the Angerstein and Lo… | — | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| Saint Jerome in the Wilderness hearing the trumpets of the Last Judgement | Juan Carreño De Miranda | £5,000–£7,000 | |
| Study for a lunette: Eliab, architect of the Ark of the Covenant | Called Fa Presto Luca Giordano | £4,000–£6,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Opie R.a. | Portrait of a girl, seated | $4,088 | Bonhams, Jul 2017 | |
| John Opie R.a. | A girl slumbering under a tree in a landscape | Sotheby's, May 2022 | ||
| John Opie R.a. | melancholia recto; study of a male nude verso | Sotheby's, Dec 2008 | ||
| John Opie R.a. | Portrait of a boy, traditionally identified as Henry West Be | Bonhams, Oct 2014 | ||
| John Opie R.a. | portrait of a young girl, said to be lady bathurst | Sotheby's, Feb 2013 | ||
| John Opie R.a. | portrait of john penwarne junior (b. 1758), resting on a mos | Sotheby's, Apr 2016 | ||
| John Opie R.a. | Portrait of the artist Thomas Girtin, bust-length, in a dark | Bonhams, Jul 2015 | ||
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.