The

Christopher Foley,

Collection of English Medals

of the 15th-17th Centuries

 

16th October 2014

Woolley &  Wallis

Salisbury

 

Heavy softcover catalogue in as new condition

Catalogue of an extraordinarily comprehensive collection which has been assembled over the past quarter century or so by Christopher Foley FSA., director for the last forty years of the old-established dealer in early English paintings, Lane Fine Art Limited. He has long specialised in British portraiture, and was initially attracted to these medals by the correlation between the iconography of grand court portraiture in oil paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries and their reproduction on a tiny scale in precious metals.

With nearly 600 lots of individual medals, such a dispersal is exceedingly rare and has hardly been equalled in size and scope for completeness in the last 100 years.