Equestrian Collection Fit for Royalty Seeks New Kingdom and Noble Bidders

Dreweatts auction house will be a busy place in the first week of October this year. The leading auctioneer in the United Kingdom is holding an auction of equestrian items from the collection of famed royal interior decorator and collector Robert Kime.  The items are divided to be auctioned over the three-day period.

The day one of the auction shall have artwork present in Kime’s Robert’s Warwick Square home in London. On the second day of auction, the items will be from his Provencal house, and on the third day shall have items from both places. The equestrian collections to be auctioned have raised the interest of the people which are unique on their own.

Equestrian collections at the auction

According to Horse Talk, the auctioneer has a lot of seven hundred and fifty items with price ranges from forty pounds to thousand pounds. Among them, the equestrian items are an 1838 painting by William Nedham named “A mastiff, a pomeranian, a newfoundland and a spaniel by a dark brown and a grey hunter in the grounds of Clopton House, Warwickshire”.

The portrait features family dogs and hunters on the grounds of Clopton house. Clopton House is a seventeenth-century mansion near Stratford-upon-Avon built by Sir John Clopton. The piece auction price increased its ore auction price in online bidding. Another unique equestrian piece is Domenico Brucciani, a renowned plastic figure maker. The piece is a 19th-century plastic horse model.

The equestrian auction also has a painting painted by George Gascoyne, known for his depiction of social issues. The painting is called “The Turn of the Plough” in which men are seen working closely with their horses and plowing the field.

The auction will also have two oil paintings by the English painter Francis Sartorius the Elder. In the painting, two people are riding a horse. One painting is the horse race Cadabra. Cadabra raced in the 1760s and was the son of Cade who was an important part in forming a thoroughbred racehorse. The second painting is of Atlas son of Babraham. Robert Kime is known for collecting unique pieces and has a rare understanding of them.

About equestrian items collector Robert Kime

Robert Kime was a world-renowned designer and collector of unique items. He had such a unique sense and knowledge of things that King Charles III said about him, “You often hear of people who are said to have ‘a good eye’, but Robert Kime’s must surely be one of the best“. His interest in the antique object grew from his childhood and when he was studying as an undergraduate at Oxford, he began selling antiques. His immense collection says a lot about him.

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The unique collection of equestrian pieces is a witness of Robert Kimes’s eye for antiques. The items have already got bidders online and few have crossed the pre-auction pricing.

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