Amati > Makers Archive > Bernhard Simon (II) Fendt

Bernhard Simon (II) Fendt

Highest auction price

£50,400

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.6 cm London, 1830 c. [Probably by]	Thu 1st December 2011	£7,200
Violin	35.6 cm 1810 c. [Possibly by]	Tue 1st November 2011	£16,540
Viola	38.5 cm London, 1800 c. [Attributed to]	Sat 1st October 2011	£3,125
Cello	75.4 cm London, 1820 c.	Sat 1st October 2011	£18,750
Violin	35.6 cm London, 1830 c.	Sat 1st October 2011	£11,880
Violin	35.4 cm [Probably by]	Thu 1st September 2011	£8,400
Cello	73.3 cm 1840 c. (restorations) [Attributed to]	Tue 1st March 2011	£14,400
Violin	35.2 cm London, first half of the 19th C. [Made for "Thomas Dodd"] [Probably by]	Tue 1st March 2011	£13,750
Cello	73.4 cm 1840 c. (restorations) [Ascribed to]	Tue 1st March 2011	£10,560
Bass	London, 1830 c. string length 106.3 cm	Tue 1st June 2010	£50,400
Violin	35.3 cm London, 1840 c.	Thu 1st October 2009	£2,750
Cello	75.0 cm London, 1830 c. [Probably by]	Sat 1st November 2008	£9,633
Violin	35.1 cm London, 1832	Wed 1st October 2008	£17,500
Violin	35.3 cm London, 1840 c.	Thu 1st February 2007	£10,200
Violin	35.2 cm 1800 c. [Probably by]	Sun 1st October 2006	£11,034
Cello	74 0 cm London, 1840 c.	Wed 1st February 2006	£34,800
Violin	London	Fri 1st April 2005	£1,821
Violin	London, 1840 c.	Tue 1st February 2005	£8,400
Violin	London, 1830 c.	Thu 1st July 2004	£7,200
Violin	1830 c.	Sat 1st May 2004	£4,973
Violin	1850 c.	Tue 1st July 2003	£3,348
Violin	1830	Thu 1st June 2000	£19,550
Viola	40.3 cm 1830	Sun 1st November 1998	£8,313
Cello	1830 c.	Fri 1st March 1996	£20,700
Violin	1830 c.	Sun 1st October 1995	£10,350
Cello	1851	Fri 1st November 1991	£9,900
Cello	1830 c.	Sun 1st September 1991	£14,300
Cello	1800 c.	Sun 1st September 1991	£13,200
Viola	40.3 cm 1833	Fri 1st June 1990	£9,350
Viola	40.3 cm 1833	Wed 1st November 1989	£6,380
Cello	1800-25	Tue 1st March 1988	£6,380
Violin	1840 c.	Sun 1st November 1987	£1,760
Violin	1850	Sat 1st March 1986	£2,160
Violin	1830	Fri 1st June 1984	£4,301
Cello	1840 c.	Mon 1st November 1982	£3,240
Cello	1834	Mon 1st November 1982	£7,700
Violin	18--	Thu 1st April 1982	£1,870

Biographies

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John Dilworth

FENDT, Bernhard Simon (II) Born 1801, died 1852 London UK. Eldest son of Bernhard S. Fendt (I), above. Trained by his father at Betts’ until c.1823. From c.1831 joined in business with Charles Farn, a violin dealer and ex-employee of his father’s partner, Charles Vernon, at 72 Lombard Street. After Farn’s death in 1832 worked with George Purdy, a dancing and fencing teacher, under the name ‘Purdy and Fendt’ at 20 Finch Lane, later at 3 Oxenden Street, Haymarket, and finally at 74 Dean Street from 1850. Contributed a quartet of instruments for the International Exhibition, London 1851. Both he and his son William died of consumption in 1852. Fully equal to his father as a gifted and ingenious craftsman, his work covers a wide variety of models, but generally focused on Stradivari, Guarneri, and Amati, executed with a admirable sensitivity to the virtues of the original instruments, and varnished with rich pliant coatings of deep red-brown colours. One of the first makers to exploit the possibilities of the Guarneri del Gesù’s style. Equally famed for his exuberant double basses made on the Brescian model with flat backs and double purfling. Bernard S. Fendt Junr./ London 1832 Bernard Fendt / London 1851 [BVMA]