The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-26 00:00:00

SALE OF A GENUINE COLLECTION OF VALU-
ABLE PICTURES AN DCHOICE ENGUAVINGS, MAN-

CHESTER.
I%..TESSRS. T HOS W.INSTAN LEY and SONS (of Liver-
. pool) respectfully announce that they will SELL by
AUCTION, at the Large Itootu-in the• Exchange, Ma• ester,
en Wednesday, the 4th, Thursday, the. sth, and Fri .y, the 6th
of May, at Eleven o'clock each day, the extensiv• nd valuable
COLLECTION of PICTURES, 'choice Eb JRAVINGS,
and, a .few select DRAWINGS, the gennirie ' roperty of John
Greaves,. Esq., of the Crescent, Salford;. •,o is changing his
residence. • ,
In . this Collection will be found a grand Landscape, by.
Richard Wilson, with the Story of Phaeton, the figures nainted
Vompeo Battoni; the well known Picture of the " Maid of..
Corinth," and an Eruption of Vesuvius, a inotmlighteffect, by
Wright, of Derby ; a Group of Angels, by Northcote, ftotn,
the de 'fable; Collection ; Zadig and Astarte, by Angelica.
Kaufman ; a beautiful finished Sketch of. the Sleeping Girl, by.
Sir 'Joshua Reynolds ; several Landscapes, Sea Coast Scenes,:
:and. Interiors, by. Georg Mortand ; the much-admired Pictures
'of the "Bounty MOney, the `,'finch of Snuff',",
and the "Gyp-
sey mother," David. Wilkie, R.A.,; a Storm in the English
Channel, with an Indiaman on Shore,' by Turner,B;A: ; Bell-
sarius; by Westall; the Spoiled Child, by 'Sharp; with desirable
Specimens by West, Gainsboroug,h, Loutherbourg, Ibbetson,.
Bird, Fielding, Stringer, Nasmyth, Smirke, Howard, Stanley,
Collins, Pettier, John Wilson, Towne, Crawford, O'Connor,
Ward, Williams, Powell, Shaw,, Davis, S. Williamson, Kidd„,
Clarke, 'l'raes, ShaYer, and other faVourite British Artists.
The Works of the Ancient Masters comprise a fine Pitture
of Jacob -Blessing Esau, by Spangnioletto ; a Landscape, by
Salvator Rosa; two classical Landscapes, by F.• Mile ; an In
terior,. with Gamblers, by. Teniers; an Italian Sea-port, by
Pynacker ;• an Interior, by De Hooge; the " Pet Lamb," by
Oinegaiik; and several by Brewer, Molivaer, Ostade, Van-
dyke, Berchem, Waterloo, Vangoyne, Breughel, •Van Uden,
Kobell, Van Os, Martel, &c.
The Engravings, which will be sold on Saturday, the 7th,
comprise fine Proofs of the Declaration of American Inde-
pendence, the Sortie from, and Siege of•Gibralter; by Sharp,
the Teinnle.of Jupiter, by -Pye, and Cologne, by Goodall,' 'after
Turner, the, .Transfiguration, 'from Raphael D'Urbino, by
Raphael Morghen, the Concert de Famine, by Wille, and of
other fine Prints. Brilliant and selected Impressions of the
Trial of Queen Catharine, after Harlow°, Chaucer's Canterbury
Pilgrims, the Death of Wolfe; Penn's 'Treaty, the Death of
Nelson, some fine modern Portraits, Les Musiciens Ambulans,
and others, by Wille, with numerous productions of the most
popular and adinire.;(l English Engravers, the whole iu hand-
some and appropriate Frames, no Glazed.• -
To be viewed on Monday, the 2.1, and Tuesday, the 3d of
May, when Catalogues may be had at the place of sale; 'of Mr.
ROBERT WINSTANLEY, Chapel Walks, Manchester;. and of
Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEv and SONS, Liverpool. • •
Messrs. Tiros. WiNsTANuiv and SoNs have much pleasure
iu calling the attention of the -Lovers of the Arts to this ex-
tensive Sale, as the principal Pictures and Engravings are
.known to be of a genuine and 'superior character, selected by
the Proprietor, with much taste- and judgment, from the most
favourable-public and Private 'opportunities, at a liberal expense;
and-. they will be offered for public competition' principally
without reserve, and under very few restrictions. -