P A I N T I N G S & P R I N T S
Whether it's a large oil portrait, or a small pastoral watercolour landscape, you can find them at Batemans.
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
Alfred Augustus Glendening Sr (British 1840-1910): a pair of oil on canvas, signed lower left A. A. Glendening and dated '99, each of river scenes, one with geese to the foreground and hay wagon and haymakers to the left hand side, and the other with cows and church with steeple to distance, each in gilt frames and measuring approximately 50 by 29 cm.
Sold for £6,100.
Beatrice Parsons (1870 - 1955) watercolour of a lake with rushes, bluebells, queen anne's lace with trees to the distance, 14in by 11in, signed lower right, framed.
Sold for £1,000.
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.