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- Estimate
- £6,000–£8,000 hammer ≈ $7,486–$9,981
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, London · 5 April 2023
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5114756
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Jan Havicksz. Steen, Man Sharpening a Pen. Sotheby's, 5 Apr 2023, lot 20. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5114756.
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Jan Havicksz. Steen, Man Sharpening a Pen. Sotheby's, 5 Apr 2023, lot 20. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5114756.
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From the same sale Old Master & 19th Century Paintings · Apr 2023
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study of a grey and a a bay horse | John Frederick Herring | £6,000–£8,000 | |
| A pair of views: The Falls at Tivoli; The Basilica of Maxentius and C… | Giovanni Battista Busiri | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| A Staffordshire Bull Terrier, called Rattler | Henry Calvert | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| Portrait of Sir James Darcy Lever (1703–1742) | Isaac Whood | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| Portrait of boy | French School, Circa 1900 | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Study for a portrait of a young girl with an Indian page and parrot | Sir David Baird Discovering The Body Of Tipu Sultan M. Nargert, After Sir David Wilkie Ra | £3,000–£5,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | The Interior of an Inn | $27,778 | Sotheby's, Jun 2025 | |
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | Twelfth Night | Sotheby's, Jan 2005 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | the interior of an inn, with an old man harrassing the landl | Sotheby's, Jan 2007 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | The Rommelpot Player | Sotheby's, Jun 2015 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | peasants in a landscape | Sotheby's, Dec 2018 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | An interior with figures playing tric-trac | Sotheby's, May 2006 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | an old lady with a young boy, in an interior | Sotheby's, Jul 2015 | ||
| David Teniers The Younger | View of the Old Hôtel de Nassau in Brussels with two Falcone | Lempertz, Nov 2024 |
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.