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- Estimate
- £6,000–£8,000 hammer ≈ $11,786–$15,715
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Marine Art, London · 14 December 2006
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3563476
- Record
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Thomas Buttersworth, an armed frigate and other shipping off dover. Sotheby's, 14 Dec 2006, lot 21. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3563476.
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Thomas Buttersworth, an armed frigate and other shipping off dover. Sotheby's, 14 Dec 2006, lot 21. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3563476.
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From the same sale Marine Art · Dec 2006
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bombardment of Algiers | Thomas Luny | £20,000–£30,000 | |
| The City of Como | John Wilson Carmichael | £8,000–£12,000 | |
| A Trinity House Yacht off the coast | Thomas Whitcombe | £3,000–£4,000 | |
| The Cutty Sark off North Foreland | Henry Scott | £8,000–£12,000 | |
| On the breath of the foam | Montague Dawson R.S.M.A., F.R.S.A. | £20,000–£30,000 | |
| A Frigate of the Swedish Navy | Roy Cross | £6,000–£8,000 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Buttersworth | The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 | $24,476 | Sotheby's, Apr 2021 | |
| Thomas Buttersworth | The action of Commodore Dance and the Comte de Linois off th | Sotheby's, Apr 2021 | ||
| Thomas Buttersworth | a third-rate british privateer with a cutter astern off the | Sotheby's, May 2017 | ||
| Thomas Buttersworth | The East Indiaman Rose off Portsmouth | Bonhams, Oct 2018 | ||
| Thomas Buttersworth | The Bristol privateer Caesar, 20-guns, Captain Valentine Bak | Bonhams, Oct 2019 | ||
| Thomas Buttersworth | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Apr 2018 | ||
| Thomas Buttersworth | The Royal Navy armed cutter Entreprenante shadowing the remn | Christie's, Dec 2008 | ||
| Montague Dawson | Spindrift | Freeman's | Hindman, Oct 2023 |
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.