The Henry Holiday windows were once owned by Led Zepplin’s manager Peter Grant (1935-1995). Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.
LONDON – While the rest of the art world slows for the summer months, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will offer an impressive set of four stained glass windows by Henry Holiday in a two-day summer sale. The auction on Thursday, Aug. 28, and Friday, Aug. 29, spans furniture, works of art, painting and rugs alongside Asian and European ceramics and glass.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
Pre-Raphaelite artist Henry Holiday (1839-1927) was an English historical and landscape painter. He joined Powell’s glassworks as a stained glass window designer in 1861, and in 1891 opened his own glassworks in Hampstead. There he produced stained glass windows alongside mosaics, enamels and sacerdotal objects. One of his most famous stained glass designs is the Isambard Kingdom Brunell Memorial Window, 1868, at Westminster Abbey.
Holiday was commissioned to produce these pieces in 1898 by the Institute of Chartered accountants of England and Wales. Each has a figurative panel above the Institute’s coat of arms and motto Recte Numerare [Lot 876].
Designed for institute’s headquarters, Chartered Accountants Hall, in London, the group was purchased by Led Zepplin’s manager Peter Grant (1935-1995) and has since remained in his family.
Grant and Led Zepplin guitarist Jimmy Page shared a passion for antiques, visiting local antique markets and shops between shows.
The sale will be held at Dreweatts Bloomsbury Auctions’ Donnington Priory saleroom, in Newbury, Berkshire.
ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Henry Holiday (1839-1927), a set of stained glass windows for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, 1898, each with a figurative panel above the arms of the Institute and the motto ‘Recte Numerare.’ Estimate: £8,000 – £12,000, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.
