Past Sales
a selection of lots from our previous sales
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9th March 2023
Circle of Frans Floris. Head of a Saint
Sold for £5,000
After Guido Reni. Sibilla
Sold for £2,200
Cheong Soo Pieng. A Riverside Kampong
Sold for £9,500
Ralph Steadman.
Sold for £3,400
Thomas Rowlandson.
Sold for £440
Willy Eisenschitz. Le Chenal.
Sold for £5,500
Franz Johann Wilhelm Hunten. The Royal London Yacht Club
Sold for £5,000
9th February 2023
17th Century Dutch School. The Lamentation
Sold for £3,800
Circle of Paolo de Matteis. The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite
Sold for £2,000
Sophie Anderson. A Seated Lady holding a Posy of Flowers
Sold for £7,000
Laura Knight. Fun Makers
Sold for £1,400
Barbara Hepworth. Pastorale
Sold for £4,200
Manner of Giovanni Battista Beinaschi. A Bearded Figure
Sold for £1,100
William Lee Hankey. A Twilight Scene with Figures
Sold for £190
John Yardley. Inner Harbour - Honfleur
Sold for £1,400
12th january 2023
Harold Speed. A Seated Nude in a Garden
Sold for £1,900
Eileen Agar. House of Cards
Sold for £1,100
Attributed to Hendrik Van Steenwijk II (c.1580-1640) Dutch. Interior of a Gothic Church
Sold for £12,000
Fred Cuming. Studio 1989
Sold for £1,000
The Master of Roncaitte. The Virgin and Child
Sold for £8,500
Attributed to Palma Vecchio. The Madonna and Child with Sts John The Baptist and Mary Magdalene
Sold for £42,000
John Anthony Park. Boats in St Ives
Sold for £2,600
8TH DECEMBER 2022
Eloise Harriet Stannard. Still Life of Fruit on a Silver Salver
Sold for £2,500
Early 18th Century Italian School. Cleansing of the Temple
Sold for £3,000
Leonard Raven-Hill. Gilbert and Sullivan under a Utopia Backdrop
Sold for £950
David Hockney. Digging Up Glass
Sold for £2,600
William Henry Margetson. An Elegant Young Lady Seated in an Interior
Sold for £3,000
Simon Palmer. The Mud Dance
Sold for £1,200
Feliks Topolski. In a Pub off Eaton Square
Sold for £1,750
After William Hogarth. Portrait of Peg Woffington
Sold for £5,000
3rd november 2022
Spyros Vassiliou. Fishmonger
Sold for £2,300
James Haughton Forrest. A Sailing Vessel Moored in a Mountainous Landscape
Sold for £5,500
Richard Karlovich Zommer. Caucasian Figures at Rest
Sold for £7,200
Victor-Gabriel Gilbert. Le dejeuner du Chat
Sold for £5,800
17th Century Italian School. Figures by Candlelight
Sold for £1,900
Circle of Alan Ramsay. Bust Portrait of a Lady Reading a Book
Sold for £5,500
Alfred de Breanski. The Heart of Perthshire
Sold for £8,000
6TH OCTOBER 2022
T McTigue. Lady Astor Playing Golf at North Berwick, after John Lavery
Sold for £2,300
Late 18th Century Italian School. The Molo, with Figures in the foreground and the companion piece, The Rialto Bridge
Sold for £28,000 (pair)
Late 16th Century English School. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
Sold for £12,000
After Andy Warhol. Queen Elizabeth
Sold for £220
Marcus Clayton Stone. An Elegant Lady Reading in a Garden
Sold for £900
17th Century Italian School. The Madonna and Child with Infant St John the Baptist
Sold for £7,000
James Lawrence Isherwood. Wigan Shawls
Sold for £750
Attributed to John Emms. Study of a Terrier
Sold for £360
8th September 2022
Mary Fedden. Tabby
Sold for £4,600
Cecil Rochfort Doyly-John. Les Martigues, South France
Sold for £1,300
Fred Yates. Lostwithiel
Sold for £2,300
Gustaaf de Bruyne. The Apple Pickers
Sold for £2,800
Adelsteen Normann. Nature's Grandeur, Norwegian Fjord
Sold for £10,000
Raoul Millais. Gold Dust, Champion Hunter
Sold for £2,600
Dang Lebadang. Le Lac Jaune
Sold for £2,400
4th AUGUST 2022
William Anslow Thornley. French Fishing Boats
Sold for £900
Ken Howard. Study of a Naked Woman in a Mirror
Sold for £1,100
Edward Wesson. Chichester Canal, Birdham
Sold for £800
Clifton Tomson. A Hunter in a Landscape
Sold for £2,800
Joan Gilchrest. Spring in the Air
Sold for £1,000
William Carpenter. Coastal View of Barbados, Hackleton’s Cliff
Sold for £1,000
Charles William Taylor. Beyond Steyning
Sold for £280
7th JULY 2022
P J Crook. Liberation
Sold for £4,000
Follower of Francois Clouet. Portrait of a Gentleman
Sold for £3,600
David Gourlay Steell. Terriers Resting by a Bench
Sold for £3,600
A Fine and Large Collection of Early Postcards of Farnham
Sold for £2,400
Henry John Yeend King. Young Girls at Harvest Time
Sold for £3,600
Antoine Bouvard. Le Rio L’Baruaba, Venice
Sold for £4,400
John Emms. Captain
Sold for £3,000
9TH JUNE 2022
A. H. Gatehouse. Jack Dempsey & Georges Carpentier
Sold for £2,800
Arthur Wardle. Head Study of Gordon Setters
Sold for £2,000
Philip Connard. Carnations
Sold for £2,200
Sidney Richard Percy. A Highland Landscape
Sold for £3,200
Edward Alfred Cucuel. Amalfi Coast in Morning Sun
Sold for £3,800
Terence Tenison Cuneo. An Interior with Two Figures
Sold for £2,400
Laurence Stephen Lowry. Britain at Play
Sold for £4,800
Frank Owen Salisbury. Pair of Portraits of Mr and Mrs Harrison
Sold for £2,200
12th may 2022
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti. A Refreshing Treat
Sold for £6,000
Edward Seago. View of Leidschendam, Holland
Sold for £9,500
Quentin Blake. Cyril Listening to the Newspaper being Read
Sold for £1,100
Carel Weight. Bessie’s Meeting with Nobberdaddy
Sold for £3,400
Edward Pritchett. The Doge’s Palace from the Grand Canal
Sold for £9,400
Lucy Dawson. Judy, Spaniel Puppy
Sold for £750
7th april 2022
William T Rawlinson. Rufus Relaxing
Sold for £260
Richard Whatley West. Hampstead Heath
Sold for £650
Manner of Marcus Gheeraerts. Half Length Portrait of a Lady in Elizabethan Dress
Sold for £10,000
Edward Wesson. A View from the South of Chichester Cathedral
Sold for £900
Augustin-Luc Demoussy. Aphrodite with a Dove
Sold for £1,000
Ross Foster. A Beach Scene with Figures
Sold for £160
10th march 2022
J. Fisher. Street Scene at Farnham
Sold for £20,000
104Early 19th Century French School A Wild Bird
Sold for £260
Laura Knight. Circus Audience
Sold for £360
Ben McLaughlin. Sunday December 3, 2000
Sold for £4,000
Maggi Hambling. Wave
Sold for £4,400
Antoine Blanchard. Porte St Denis
Sold for £2,200
Eric Ravilious. Boy Birdnesting
Sold for £300
10th february 2022
John Alfred Arnesby Brown. Cattle near a Stream
Sold for £7,400
Lionel Bulmer. Changing on the Beach
Sold for £1,600
Eloise Harriet Stannard. Strawberries
Sold for £2,400
Charles Johnson Payne ‘Snaffles’. A Polo Player on Horseback
Sold for £2,000
Terrick John Williams. Sea and Mist
Sold for £10,000
Agnes Augusta Talboys. Pussies in Conference
Sold for £1,300
Adrian Paul Allinson. Winter Slumber
Sold for £200
6th january 2022
Frederick Sandys. Red Cap
Sold for £1,400
Early 20th Century English School. Study of a Seated Lady in Costume
Sold for £1,600
Beryl Cook. Escargot Pour Trois
Sold for £110
Early 20th Century English School. Piccadilly Circus
Sold for £950
John Frederick Herring Jnr. A Farm Scene with a Hunt in Full Flight
Sold for £3,600
William Wynne Ryland. L’Ecole d’Armes
Sold for £280 (a set of four)
19th Century French School A Gilt Composition Barbizon Frame
Sold for £480
Late 18th Century Spanish School. Still Life of Fruit on a Ledge
Sold for £1,500
2nd december 2021
Louis Turpin. Day Lilies and Delphiniums
Sold for £5,000
Harold Speed. Study for April
Sold for £1,300
Laurence Stephen Lowry. Street Scene
Sold for £2,800
Roderic O’Conor. Sea and Red Rocks
Sold for £26,000
Jose Escofet. Auricula V 1989
Sold for £1,400
Jane Vivian. Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venice
Sold for £5,000
Peter Markham Scott. Geese in Flight
Sold for £8,000
4th november 2021
Allan Ramsay. Portrait of Miss Mitchell
Sold for £10,000
John Alfred Wheeler. Head of a Fox Hound
Sold for £380
Alfred de Breanski. Between the Showers
Sold for £7,500
Christopher Saxton. Cornwall
Sold for £1,200
After Lemuel Francis Abbott. Admiral Lord Nelson
Sold for £5,500
Henry Redmore. Shipping in a Light Breeze on the North Sea
Sold for £4,000
Antony Gormley. “Sexual Field-Asexual Field, 2001”
Sold for £460
7th october 2021
Dorothea Sharp. A Beach Scene with Children
Sold for £24,000
Terence Parkes ‘Larry’. “Mr Donald McGill Copying a Monet – Tate Gallery, 1952”
Sold for £90
Sheree Valentine Daines. “Café on the River”
Sold for £8,200
Thierry Poncelet. Portrait of a Collie Lady
Sold for £1,300
Ken Howard. Roses on a Windowsill
Sold for £1,300
Circle of Francis Cotes. Bust Portrait of a Lady
Sold for £3,800
Laurence Stephen Lowry. “Market Scene, Northern Town (1939)”
Sold for £4,200
Thomas Sidney Cooper. Sheep and Cows in a River Landscape
Sold for £8,500
9th september 2021
17th Century German School. Head of a Madonna
Sold for £1,600
Gilbert William Gaul. “A Boy’s Sport”
Sold for £3,800
Ken Moroney. Figures in a Street Market
Sold for £420
John S Sanderson Wells. The Master of the Hounds Cantering with the Pack
Sold for £400
Peter Markham Scott. Ducks in Flight
Sold for £4,600
18th Century Italian School. Head of a Madonna
Sold for £950
Early 19th Century English School.
Sold for £4,800
David Emil Joseph de Noter. Still Life of Fruit on a Bank
Sold for £360
5th august 2021
Circle of Sir John Lavery. “Oval”, ‘1926 V Test England vs Australia’, a Cricket match
Sold for £480
Keith Shackleton. “The Fish Pass, Frigate Birds at Cosmoledo Atoll”
Sold for £1,600
Paul Cesar Helleu. Bust Portrait of a Young Girl
Sold for £700
Beryl Cook. “Joggers on the Hoe”
Sold for £140
Attributed to Arthur Melville.
Sold for £3,800
411
Sold for £300
Manner of Thomas Beach. “Silvestra Monypenny (1766-1835)”
Sold for £4,000
8th july 2021
18th Century Dutch School. Adoration of the Magi
Sold for £17,000
Gustave Emile Couder. A Still Life
Sold for £6,500
Benjamin Williams Leader. A Fine Summer’s Day near Whittington, Worcestershire
Sold for £1,900
Pavel Fedorovich Tchelitchew. “Anatomical Head”
Sold for £3,000
Malcolm Horton. The Penguin Parad
Sold for £750
Duncan Grant. Standing Woman
Sold for £280
Sandra Blow. Transparency, 2004
Sold for £500
10th june 2021
John Lowrie Morrison. Study of a Cottage
Sold for £1,400
Eric Gill. Nude
Sold for £170
16th Century Umbrian School. Pentecost
Sold for £3,400
Timothy Easton. “Towards the Gateway, Bedfield Hall”
Sold for £300
William Turner of Oxford. Before Sunrise, Loch Torridon
Sold for £10,000
Peter G Power. USS Constitution Captures HMS Guerriere, August 1812
Sold for £320
13th may 2021
Alexandre Jean Couder. Still Life of Flowers
Sold for £400
Kyffin Williams. Capel Soar
Sold for £32,000
Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn. Portrait of a Young Girl
Sold for £7,600
Rene Charles Edmond His. Reflets du Paysage
Sold for £2800
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens. Study of a Man on a Rearing Horse
Sold for £58,000
Kyffin Williams. A Cattle Herder in Patagonia
Sold for £3,200
Harold Knight. The Lady
Sold for £8,000
15th april 2021
Charles Sillem Lidderdale. Hesitation.
Sold for £3,600
Eugene Delacroix. A Sketch of a Rocky Landscape
Sold for £11,000
Simeon Stafford. St Michael's Mount
Sold for £1,100
Archibald Thorburn. A Grey Partridge.
Sold for £3,800
After Charles Martin. Maria de Medes France Regina (Marie de Medici, Queen of France)
Sold for £5,600
Robin Tanner. Wren and Primroses.
Sold for £700
Attributed to George Chinnery. An Indian Army Officer
Sold for £1500
18th & 19th march 2021
Paul Ayshford Methuen. Pays de Bastides
Sold for £1,600
Edward Julius Detmold. Cape Grass Finches
Sold for £1,900
Francois Bonvin. Le Serrurier
Sold for £32,000
Orlando Norie. The 15th Hussars
Sold for £1,700
John Piper. Medham (Suffolk)
Sold for £6,500
17th Century English School. Portrait of Mrs Pemberton
Sold for £3,000
THURSDAY 18TH FEBRUARY
RAGS TO RICHES RUSSIAN ARTIST
Cupid’s arrow pierced the heart of several bidders who competed for this beautiful portrait of a Young Girl by Alexei Harlamoff, selling for £6,000 against an estimate of £2,000-£3,000.
Harlamoff was born into serfdom in Russia in 1840 but found fame and fortune in Paris painting portraits, where he became a prominent and influential member of the international art scene.
ITALIAN HOLIDAYS
Lockdown nostalgia may have been responsible for driving prices higher than expected for this sunny view of Portofino which sold for £1,100…
TENNIS
… and who wouldn’t love to get outside and play tennis? A Tennis Match, Circle of John Lavery, oil on board, sold for £1,200
Country Life
Romantic dreams of escaping to the country may also have fuelled desire for this charming 19th century painting by Edmund Bristow (1787-1876), which sold well above estimate for £3,000.
John Stanton Ward (1917-2007)
The Redcurrants
Sold for £850
Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886)
Landscape and Cornfield
Sold for £7,500
Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003)
Black, Red and White Circles
Sold for £900
Thursday 21st January
Going, going, all gone…
All 314 lots of frames sold in this sale, most of them at prices way beyond their estimates. The highest was for this 19th century frame – a work of art in its own right – which made £1,500.
A new record auction price for a watercolour by Basil Ede
Nearly 60 bids were taken from phone bidders, absentee bidders and online bidders, with the hammer finally falling at £5,500 for this watercolour of a green woodpecker. A companion piece sold for £3,400.
This stylish painting of Arab Greys by John Alexander Harrington Bird was purchased for £5,500
– on behalf of Shirley Watts, wife of Charlie Watts. Shirley has a successful Arab Stud in Devon.
Good breeding
This portrait of Caroline Lennox by Allan Ramsay sold for £9,000
A dramatic oil painting of Schevinengen Harbour
by Cornelius Krieghoff sold for £4,400 – an encouraging result as we will be offering one of his Canadian scenes, ‘The Pioneers’, for sale in our next auction on 18th February
George Large (1936- )
“Mechanics”
Sold for £800
Tom Greenshields (1915-1994)
Study of a Naked Young Lady leaning on her Elbows
Sold for £600
Arthur John Strutt (1819-1888)
The Falls of Tivoli
Sold for £3,400
Attributed to William Rothenstein (1872-1945)
Study of Alice and John Rothenstein
Sold for £900
Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991)
Lanes Above Tilton
Sold for £1,500
THURSDAY 17TH DECEMBER
Walter Hugh Paton (1828-1895)
Dalmally
Sold for £600
John Minton (1917-1957)
The Matador
Sold for £1,000
Oliver Clare (1853-1927)
Study of Primroses, Violets and Hellebores, and another
Sold for £1,100
Robert Wraith (1952- )
Six O’Clock
Sold for £600
Konstantin Razumov (1974- )
Sunny Day at Sea
Sold for £3,000
Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) and Yoshijiro Urushibara (1888-1953)
Bruges at Dawn
Sold for £1,400
Herbert Edward Butler (1861-1931)
Polperro, a Street Scene at Dusk
Sold for £3,600
Allen Tucker (1866-1939)
Sea and Rocks, View of Baker’s Island, Salem, Massachusetts
Sold for £6,000
William Anslow Thornley (1857-1935)
Sunrise at Margate
Sold for £1,100
Attributed to Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661)
Bust Portrait of a Gentleman, originally thought to be Sir Walter Raleigh
Sold for £7,000
Thursday 26th November
Fred Cuming (1930-)
A Moonlit Coastal Scene
Sold for £1,100
18th Century Italian School
A Carved Giltwood Florentine Frame
Sold for £300
John Frederick Herring (1815-1907)
A River Landscape with Horses Watering
Sold for £4,600
19th Century English School
Study of a Bird with Nest Full of Eggs
Sold for £1,400
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
“Sketch for Proposed Interior at Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition House’
Sold for £3,400
Philip Kelly (1950-)
“La Faena”
Sold for £1,900
Cyril Lavenstein (1891-1986)
“Tarring the Boat”
Sold for £750
THURSDAY 29th october 2020
18th Century Chinese School
A Chinese Wallpaper Design
Sold for £550
After Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)
An Extensive Landscape with Haarlem in the distance
Sold for £8,000
William Thornley (1857-1935)
A Seascape with St Michael’s Mount and Figures Fishing in the Foreground
Sold for £2,400
THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020
Late 17th Century Italian School
The Madonna and Child, with Attendants
Sold for £3,600
E Hausmann (20th Century) European
Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Hat
Sold for £750
Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) British
Carrick Roads Anchorage, Falmouth
Sold for £1,400
John Bratby (1928-1992) British
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1966
Sold for £300
H… M… (19th Century) European
Fishermen Below a Rocky Promontory
Sold for £950
Algernon Cecil Newton (1880-1968) British
A Country Path
Sold for £10,000
Sarah Jane Szikora (1971- ) British
Go Back to Bed Muriel
Sold for £700
Richard Ansdell (1815-1885) British
Early Morning Shower
Estimate £3,000 – £4,000
Sold for £3,000
THURSDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2020
Giacomo Guardi (1764-1835) Italian
A Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice
Sold for £3,600
Herbert William Weekes (act. 1856-1904) British
The Head of an English Mastiff
Sold for £1,300
William Gear (1915-1997) British
Sculpture in Landscape, 1952
Sold for £8,000
Konstantin Razumov (1974- ) Russian
On the Sea Shore
Sold for £4,000
18th Century English School
A Carved Giltwood Frame, with swept and pierced centres and corners, 50″ x 40″
Sold for £620
Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997) British
White Roses in a Silver Urn, with the Reflection of the Artist
Sold for £1,800
Antonio Pedro Urbano Veiga de Macedo (1955- ) Portuguese
A Grecian beauty at a Water Fountain
Sold for £1,500
Louis Bosworth Hurt (1856-1929) British
Moorland at Clachaig, Glencoe, a Highland Scene with Cattle
Sold for £5,000
Philip Eustace Stretton (1865-1919) British
A Picardy Orchard, with a Young Girl and Sheep under a Blossom Tree
