Giuseppe Guadagnini

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.7 cm Italy, Possibly 19th C. [Ascribed to]	Sat 1st October 2011	£15,840
Violin	35.7 cm Italy, 1801 c. [Possibly by] [Lit.]	Wed 1st April 2009	£25,399
Violin	35.6 cm Como, 1780 c. [Ascribed to]	Sat 1st November 2008	£30,933
Violin	[Ascribed to]	Thu 1st July 2004	£14,400
Violin	1785 c. [Attributed to]	Thu 1st July 2004	£8,365
Violin	1772	Tue 1st July 2003	£117,600
Violin	1785 c.	Fri 1st November 2002	£86,250
Violin	1780	Sat 1st July 2000	£41,900
Cello	Pavia, 1791	Thu 1st June 1989	£82,500
Viola	41.0 cm	Wed 1st March 1989	£41,800

John Dilworth

GUADAGNINI, Giuseppe (Giuseppe Antonio Santo) (I) Born 1753 Milan, died 1805 Pavia Italy. Second son of Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, above. Known as ‘il Soldate’. Pupil and assistant of his father alongside his brothers Gaetano, Carlo, and Fillippo. Left the family business in Turin some time before 1782, working independently in Pavia, c.1780-1781, then in Como and Milan, but returning to Pavia. A more active violin maker than his brothers, his style is a little rustic but imbued with great personality reflecting a little of his father’s work. Various models, generally with prominent outward pointing upper corners, scroll a little Storioni-like, with extended last turn and small chamfers. Varnished orange-brown to pale golden-amber. Joseph Guadagnini Cremonensis / fecit Papiae anno 1790 Giuseppe Guadagnini / filio di Giov.Battista Giuseppe Guadagnini fil. / Johannes Battista Parmae 1768 Giuseppe Guadagnino Figlio di Giovanni / Battista fece in Como nella Contrada di / Porta Sala 178. [Rosengard]

George Hart

Second son of Giovanni Battista. Worked with his father for some time at Turin. He ultimately went to Lombardy, and settled in Pavia, where he made a great number of instruments. The work and character belonging to these instruments is varied. The model is that of Stradivari. In some instances the sound-holes partake of the character of Giuseppe Guarneri. The varnish is inferior to that of his predecessors, and the wood often hard and plain. Some of his Violins bear the labels of his father, and were doubtless made when they were living together.

Cecie Stainer

Second son of Giambattista, grandson of Lorenzo, b. about 1736; d.about 1805. First a pupil of his father in Turin (about 1751), then worked at Milan, Como, and Parma (about 1793). Had not so much ability as other members of his family ; he made a quantity of violins, altos, and violoncellos on the Stradivari pattern. His work was much inferior to that of his father, whose label he often used, and consequently have less market value ; but his instruments generally have a good tone.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Zweiter Sohn von Giambattista I. G., dessen Schüler er wohl gewesen sein
dürfte. Er nennt sich einen Cremoneser, ob er dort geboren ist, oder vielleicht dort gelernt hat, ist unbekannt. Er baute nach Stradivari und Guarneri. Flaches
breites Modell, gute Arbeit, weniger gelingt ihm der Ton; 1760 befand er sich in Parma, 1763 wohnte er in Como in der Contrada di Porta, 1790 in Pavia. Zuletzt
kam er ganz herunter. Seine besten Arbeiten erreichen immerhin Preise
bis 2200 M. Er liebte auch doppelte Einlagen und ausser seinen Zetteln findet
man neben dem Balken auch die Buchstaben: »S. J. F. (?) SS. S. GG. F. P.«
Eine gute Violine von ihm besitzt das Kölner Conservatorium der Musik.

£117,600

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