[Gardening] Group of 30 Miscellaneous Gardening Works

Sizes and conditions vary. Sold as a lot. Including:

Blomfield, Reginald. The Formal Garden in England, London: 1936; Stroud, Dorothy. Capability Brown, London: (1957); Holme, Charles. The Gardens of England in the Southern and Western Counties, London: 1907; Watson, William. The Gardener's Assistant (Vols. II and VI only), London: no date; Blanchan, Neltje. Nature's Garden An Aid to Knowledge... New York: 1901; Rogers, Julia. Trees Worth Knowing, New York: 1934; Deland, Margaret (and Walter Crane), The Old Garden and Other Verses... Boston, 1893; (Hull, Thomas). First Garden Book being a Faithful Reprint... Illinois, 1939; Jekyll, Gertrude. Home and Garden... London: 1901; Jekyll, Getrude. Wall and Water Gardens, London: no date; (Repton, Humphrey) The Art of Landscape Gardening... London: 1907; Sale, Edith. Historic Gardens of Virginia, Richmond: (1923); Hutcheson, Martha. The Spirit of the Garden, Boston: (1923); House, Homer. Wild Flowers... New York, 1935; Blanchan, Neltjie. The American Flower Garden, New York: 1909; Clute, Eugene. English House Grounds, New York: 1924; Lowell, Guy. American Gardens, Boston: 1902; Miller, Wilhelm. What England Can Teach Us About Gardening, New York: 1913; Townsend, Reginald. The Book of Gardens and Gardening, New York: 1924; Tipping, H. Avray. English Gardens, London: 1925; Holme, Charles. The Gardens of England in the Midland and Eastern Counties, London: 1908; Holme, Charles: The Gardens of England in the Southern and Western Counties, London: 1907; Cane, Percy. Modern Gardens British and Foreign, London: 1926; Wilson, Ernest. If I Were to Make a Garden, Boston: 1931; Le Moyne, Louis Valcoulon. Country Residences in Europe and America, New York: 1921; Lockwood, Alice. Gardens of Colony and State (Two Vols.), New York: 1931; West, Vita Sackville. Country Notes, New York: 1940; Hubbard, Henry and Theodora Kimball. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design, Boston: 1967; Gilmour, John. British Botanists, London: 1946; Cran, Marion. Gardens in America, London: 1931.

Property from the Collection of Renny Reynolds

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Alasdair Nichol

EVP, Deputy Chairman

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Alasdair Nichol is Deputy Chairman of Freeman's. He previously served as Chairman of Freeman's, and he and two colleagues acquired the company in a friendly management buy-out in 2016.

He joined Freeman’s in 1999, and as an auctioneer of almost 30 years, has sold many significant collections, including The George D. Horst Collection of Fine Art, The Lehman Brothers Collection, The Collection of Dorrance "Dodo" H. Hamilton, The Stanley Bard Collection: A Life at the Chelsea, and numerous works that set new world auction records. He was instrumental in establishing Freeman’s departmental fine sales and has spearheaded the company’s mission of showcasing single-owner collections.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he studied fine art at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. He later graduated with a master's degree from the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1985, he embarked on his career in the auction world in Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow, where he organized the first sale of Scottish contemporary art at the world-renowned Glasgow School of Art. He subsequently moved to a flagship saleroom in London where he specialized in Modern and Impressionist art before transferring to New York as Head of Fine Art in 1997. Since 1998 he has been a familiar face on the top-rated PBS television program Antiques Roadshow.

Adam Veil

VP, Head of Department, American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists

adamveil@freemansauction.com 267.414.1221

Adam Veil serves as Vice President and a Fine Art Specialist at Freeman’s.

Veil joined Freeman’s in 2021 following years of experience in both the auction world and the academy. His area of specialization is pre-WWII American Art, although he has lectured and published on topics ranging from Mexican landscape painting and Old Master printmaking to art market economics.

Veil earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in art history from Penn State University and pursued doctoral studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to joining Freeman’s, Veil was Head of Fine Art at a Washington, D.C.-area auction house, and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Auction, where he oversaw market-setting auctions of classical and contemporary Western, Southwestern, and California art. He has also held positions in provenance research, art fair operations, and as editor and producer of The Conversation, a popular Los Angeles–based contemporary art podcast. Concurrent with his role at Freeman’s, Veil is a professor at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in Renaissance, Modern, and American art history.

Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds

[Gardening] Group of 30 Miscellaneous Gardening Works

Garden Party: The Collection of Renny Reynolds

[Gardening] Group of 30 Miscellaneous Gardening Works

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