P A I N T I N G S  &  P R I N T S

Frederic Richard Lee, R.A (1798 - 1879) 'The water mill'. A large oil on canvas painting signed by the artist lower right FR Lee and dated 1827, depicting an overshot water mill with wheel, red brick buildings next to a body of water upon which there is a sailed barge. On the right four young children and a dog are conversing under a large tree, and a small boy
is fishing at the waters edge. Label verso for Thomas Lawrie & sons, Glasgow. Sold for £10,500

Edgar Hunt (British 1876-1925), oil on canvas farmyard scene
showing four cockerels gathered around a wooden pail of cabbages,
overlooked by a rabbit in a hutch, signed E Hunt and dated
1928 lower left, 18cm by 25cm, in modern gilt frame.
Sold for £10,200

Three watercolours by Beatrice Parsons (one shown left) were stored
in a coal shed until one of our valuers recognised they were originals
during a routine valuation and suggested the owner auction them
- they went on to sell for £800, £1,000 and £1,100!

Attributed to George Morland (1763 - 1804). A portrait of Mr Thomas Moore. He wears a white cravat and brown jacket with large buttons, striped waistcoat, facing right. He died at Willesden Green, Middlesex (1810). Sold for £1,500.

Fred Yates (British, Cornwall b.1922):
Oil on canvas of Mont Saint Michel,
with figures in street foreground signed at lower right,
72cm by 73cm, Sold for £3,400.

Oliver Clare (British, b.1853 - d.1927):
Oil on canvas still life – of apples, grapes,
white currants and strawberries.
Sold for £1,500.

Charles Hunt (British b.1829 – d.1900):
The Trial or Judge and Jury: oil on canvas signed and dated 1866
of three children, two wearing wigs and seated at a table, the
smallest standing with hands bound by a pink ribbon.
Sold for £1,500.

John Barrett (British, Exh.1883) The Reapers, oil on board,
signed and dated 1883, showing a cornfield with workers
gathering sheaves, trees to distance.
Sold for £1,100.

William Anstey Dollond (b.1858 – d.1926):
Watercolour set in ancient Greece showing two classical maidens at a marble fountain in mosaic tiled courtyard, 31cm by 50cm.
Sold for £1,100.

Paintings by local artists such as Wilfrid Wood regularly come up for sale, as do those by well known artists, such as this painting we sold recently by the notorious master faker Tom Keating, for £360.