Classic Week highlights at Christie's

BGUK_2676860 - Classic Week in London returns this summer with ten live auctions and one online sale, spanning art from antiquity to the 20th century. The series runs from 30 June to 14 July with auction highlights on free view to the public from 1 July. Lots photographed old Masters Part 1 Sale 6 July: Rembrandt's 'Portrait of Jan Willemsz. van der Pluym and Jaapgen Carels' These paintings have been in private hands for 2 centuries. Est val £5,000,000 - £8,000,000 - Fra Angelico painting Est val £4,000,000 - £6,000,000 - El Greco 'Entombment of Christ' Est val £6,000,000 - £8,000,000 - Antonio Canova 'Bust of Helen' ( Helen of Troy ) Est val £2,500,000 - £4,000,000 - Michael Sweerts 'The Artist's Studio with a Seamstress' Est val £2,000,000 - £3,000,000 - Clara Peeters 'A wicker basket with apples and pears, a silver tazza with green and red grapes, a squirrel, langoustines, fruit and acorns on a stone ledge' Est val £500,000 - £700,000 Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes. 7 July - Queen Charlotte memento of love for King George III: A rare medallion commissioned by the queen as a gift to close friends who had remained loyal to the king during his illness. Presented by the queen 19 March 1789 Est val £3,000 - £5,000 Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours. 4 July - JMW Turner 'Sunrise over the Sea' Est val £600,000 - £800,000 Exceptional Sale 6 July Letter written by Mozart to his friend Baroness von Waldstatten in which the 26 year old declares that he needs to marry within 2 days in order to save his future wife from the scandal of being dragged out of his house by the police. Signed by Mozart in 1782 in Vienna Est val £300,000 - £500,000