antiques & fine art sale

Four Victorian Art Nouveau decorative tiles, probably Minton, each with stylised pattern, 15.3 cm x 15.3 cm, and nine further smaller tiles, some marked Minton (see illustration).

Sold for £380

Two 19th century tiles, one decorated with sheep the other a cow. 15.3 cm x 15.3 cm.

Sold for £50

A pair of 19th century blue and white transfer printed ashettes, Willow pattern. Each width 45 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A pair of 19th century blue and white transfer printed Asiatic Pheasant ashettes. Width 40 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A large 19th century stone china "Fairy Villas" meat dish with reservoir. Length 49 cm.

Sold for £40

Two Victorian Ashworth Brothers Ironstone dinner plates, diameter 26 cm, and six matching soup bowls, printed and impressed marks.

Sold for £20

A Carltonware smokers companion set, comprising two ashtrays, lighter and cigarette box, decorated in enamel colours with birds and flowerheads.

Sold for £32

A late 19th/early 20th century blue Jasperware stilton dish. Diameter 26 cm.

Sold for £50

A pair of Victorian Parian dog groups, "Imposing on Good Nature" and "Retribution". Each length 24.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £100

An early 20th century Limoges dessert service, comprising two comports and six plates, floral printed. Plate diameter 21 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A pair of 19th century Samson of Paris armorial dishes, square, decorated in typical colours. 19.5 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Two Royal Doulton figurines, "Autumn Breezes" HN1934 and "Top O The Hill" HN1834, and a Robin Hood character jug D6527.

Estimated: £30 - £40

A Bavarian porcelain foliate patterned dinner service, 55 pieces.

Sold for £100

Six Continental porcelain coffee cups and saucers, with grey banding and gilt rims.

Sold for £32

A pair of Vienna porcelain vases, printed with Classical scenes and with beehive mark to base. Height 37 cm.

Sold for £30

A porcelain vase, painted with a figural panel, roses and a windmill. Height 41 cm.

Sold for £42

A 19th century Parian figure, Sir Walter Scott seated with dog at foot, impressed to the rear "Copyright Reserved, England". Height 35 cm, width 23 cm.

Sold for £40

A pair of Vienna porcelain lidded vases, decorated with scenes after Angelica Kauffman, each with beehive mark to base. Height 30 cm.

Sold for £40

Four 19th century coloured engravings of ships after Huggins and Dutton, "Lord Lowther", "Sir David Scott", "The Clipper Ship Yorkshire, 1100 Tons" and "The Samuel Enderby", largest image 34 cm x 50 cm, all unframed.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Three Victorian portraits, two ladies and a gentleman, watercolour and gouache, and a further watercolour portrait of an elderly lady, 12.5 cm x 9.5 cm.

Sold for £220

A Regency portrait silhouette of three children, circa 1810/20, depicting three girls, one with a basket of flowers, one with a single flower and the other with a whip, heightened with body filler and gilding and mounted within a rosewood frame, image 31 cm x 40.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £300

A Regency portrait silhouette of a gentleman, circa 1810/20, seated in a library chair heightened with body colour, mounted within a rosewood frame, 29 cm x 24 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £170

Thomas Kerr Fairless (British 1825-1853), "A Coming Shower", oil on board, ink inscribed label verso, 35.5 cm x 51.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £260

Van Baarle, study of sheep in naturalistic surroundings, signed and dated 1884, oil painting on panel, 27 cm x 35.5 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £400 - £600

A pair of late 19th century oil paintings on canvas, horse studies. 19 cm x 24 cm, framed.

Sold for £190

A. McIntosh, oil on canvas, figures by river with bridge and castle. 24 cm x 35 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £30

A. McIntosh, oil on canvas, harrowing scene. 24 cm x 34.5 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £120

Upton Stuart, oil on canvas, figures by stream in woodland. 44 cm x 35 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £55

N. Livingston, late 19th century, oil on canvas, rural landscape with river, trees and buildings. 53 cm x 93 cm.

Sold for £190

An oil painting on canvas, portrait of a Scottish soldier. 60 cm x 46 cm, in ornate gilt frame.

Sold for £420

A portrait oil on canvas "Charles Beatson, Sheffield". 60 cm x 50 cm, unframed.

Sold for £100

A 19th century oil painting on canvas, "Bishop Burnett of Aberdeen". 76 cm x 63 cm, framed.

Sold for £160

J.K. Maxton, watercolour, landscape with mountains and trees. 26 cm x 37 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £20

A Victorian oil painting on canvas, portrait of a young girl. 64 cm x 53 cm, framed.

Sold for £100

A watercolour, a lady sleeping in chair by a dresser, 34 cm x 24 cm, a pair of coloured etchings and painting of a man with tankard.

Sold for £42

William Darling McKay RSA (1844-1924), oil painting on board "On The Solway". 23 cm x 33 cm, signed (see illustration).

Sold for £600

19th century Italian School, watercolour "Temple of Antoninus" and "Faustina Rome", 32 cm x 22.5 cm, framed, and with label verso dated 1880.

Sold for £130

An oil painting on canvas, portrait of a gentleman in military dress holding a sword, painted in oval form, 51 cm x 40 cm, unframed.

Sold for £85

Oil painting on canvas, blacksmith shoeing a horse, 61 cm x 45.5 cm.

Sold for £25

Oil painting on canvas, portrait of a soldier seated and holding a musket, 61 cm x 51 cm, unframed.

Sold for £180

Oil painting on canvas, portrait of a seated monk, 54 cm x 39 cm.

Sold for £38

An oil painting on canvas, "Hadrian's Mausoleum, Rome". 35 cm x 54 cm.

Sold for £180

A 19th century oil painting on canvas, still life of jug, jardinere and candlestick, 52 cm x 41.5 cm.

Sold for £40

An oil painting on canvas, portrait of young mother with child, 49.5 cm x 38 cm, framed and signed N. Faed.

Sold for £85

H.M. Cairns, oil on canvas, still life of spring flowers in vase, 55 cm x 42 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £42

S.D.M. 1831 portrait miniature on ivory, young girl with books Homer, Milton and Shakespeare, 8 cm x 6 cm, framed, signed with initials (see illustration).

Sold for £100

A 19th century portrait miniature on ivory, oval, female figure wearing a headdress, 7.5 cm x 6 cm in gilt frame.

Sold for £60

A 19th century portrait miniature on ivory, rectangular, lady in black dress with ermine cuffs, 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm, framed (see illustration).

Sold for £110

A 19th century portrait miniature on ivory, lady wearing a bonnet and with tightly curled hair, 8.5 cm x 7 cm, framed.

Sold for £85

Two oil paintings on canvas, portraits of Eastern European ladies, 46 cm x 35 cm, unframed.

Sold for £90

Two watercolours, Constantinople, 15 cm x 24 cm, both framed, one bearing stamp Adler.

Sold for £35

Delmar Harmood Banner, watercolour, "Ullswater from John Bell's Banner". 28 cm x 38 cm.

Sold for £480

Alfred. O. Wilde (British 19th/20th century) "Friars Crag - Derwent Water", signed and dated 1903, oil on canvas, further titled to the gilt slip and verso on the canvas, all within an ornate gilt frame, 40.5 cm x 61 cm

Sold for £95

A Lovett (British, fl. late 19th century) rural landscape cattle and figures, the sea beyond, signed and dated 1876, oil on canvas 46 cm x 56 cm.

Sold for £65

Harry Halsey Meegan (late 19th/early 20th century), oil on board, "A Passing Cloud Effect Over Westminster". 20 cm x 28 cm, signed and dated 1907, unframed (see illustration).

Sold for £280

Attributed to William Hoare, oil on canvas, portrait of "Major Charles Harpur (1741-1770)", inscribed verso on stretcher "Major Harpur". 57 cm x 45 cm, framed (see illustration).

Estimated: £2000 - £3000

An 18th century portrait, oil on canvas, a gentleman. 60 cm x 46 cm, framed (see illustration).

Estimated: £2000 - £3000

Manner of Edward Seago, oil on canvas, "Greenwich from The River". 37 cm x 45 cm, framed, indistinctly signed (see illustration).

Sold for £950

George Grainger-Smith (1892-1961), oil on board, "Vinaroz". 50 cm x 59 cm, framed, signed. Liverpool Academy of Arts label verso (see illustration).

Sold for £120

George Grainger-Smith (1892-1961), oil on board, "Alcantara Bridge, Toledo". 60 cm x 80 cm, framed, signed, Liverpool Academy of Arts label verso (see illustration).

Sold for £240

From the studio of George Grainger-Smith (1892-1961), four framed etchings and eight finished oil paintings on board, some signed.

Sold for £280

From the studio of George Grainger-Smith (1892-1961), a collection of pen and wash drawings, etchings and watercolours, including Keswick Market Square, Edinburgh, and a large collection of wood engraving prints, including Durham, The Cloisters Liverpool College, Entrance to Liverpool College, etc.

Sold for £380

George Grainger-Smith (1892-1961), a collection of original artworks, principally watercolours, and pencil drawings.

Sold for £160

George Grainger-Smith (1892-1961), a carton containing a large quantity of small unframed watercolours and drawings, including Lake District oil paintings and watercolours.

Sold for £480

George Grainger-Smith (1892-1961), three buff folders containing etchings, including Liverpool, Whitby, castles, Polperro, Devon, etc., principally signed, and a file containing correspondence to the artist from various Art Galleries.

Sold for £650

After Thomas Gainsborough, a collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, engraved and published by W.F. Wells and J. Laporte, circa 1802-1804 (21).

Sold for £80

John Dawson Watson, "The parting", initialled and dated 1889, watercolour, 45 cm x 32.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £40

Henry Wilson Bracken, "Sedbergh in Autumn", signed, watercolour, 29 cm x 41 cm.

Sold for £95

Henry Wilson Bracken, "Cautley Head in Winter", signed, watercolour, 24.5 cm x 35 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £42

Henry Wilson Bracken, "Sedbergh School Chapel", signed, watercolour, 27 cm x 37 cm.

Sold for £78

Henry Wilson Bracken, "Firbank Viaduct and the Howgills", signed, watercolour, 24.5 cm x 34 cm.

Sold for £110

John Harold Bruce Lockhart (Scottish, 1889-1956), "Jackdaw Bridge, Sedbergh", signed, watercolour, 24.5 cm x 36.5 cm.

Sold for £20

English School, 19th century, three landscape watercolours, "Hardraw Force", titled and signed in ink July 16th 1847, 23 cm x 30.5 cm, "Sedbergh from Howgill Fell" initialled and inscribed July 17th 1847 22.5 cm x cm 30 cm and a further view of "Hardraw Force" initialled and titled July 16th 1847, framed and mounted on card, 27.5 x 22.5 cm.

Sold for £75

John Cooke (1929-2017), "Lancaster and the River Lune", signed, watercolour, 34 cm x 50 cm.

Sold for £65

John Cooke (1929-2017), "Lancaster and the River Lune by Moonlight", signed, gouache and watercolour, 36 cm x 51 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £110

George "Griff" Griffiths (1939-2017), "Elm tree in snow", signed, watercolour, 35 cm x 53 cm.

Sold for £30

Alfred Wainwright, "The Boathouse, Laugharne (the home of Dylan Thomas), pen and ink, signed and titled in the margins, image 14.5 cm x 20 cm.

Sold for £780

Susannah Matkin, "A rocky river in the Highlands", signed and dated 1898, watercolour, 36 cm x 53.5 cm.

Sold for £75

John Lawrence "Nothingmas Day", hand coloured vinyl block print, artist proof to issue the poem of the same name in a book or verse Adrian Mitchell, signed and dated in pencil to the margins 84, image 39 cm x 25.5 cm.

Sold for £140

John Littlejohns, "Sedbergh Parish Church", watercolour, Royal Institute of Watercolours and Painters label verso, inscribed with title and artists details, 24.5 cm x 34.5 cm.

Sold for £35

Ruth Davey, "Stream in Sun and Shadow", signed and dated '83, watercolour, 37 cm x 26.5 cm.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Christopher Heywood, "Pacific Shore, Niho", signed and dated '97, watercolour, 25 cm x 35 cm.

Sold for £10

English School, 19th century, three quarter length portrait of a seated gentleman, unsigned, watercolour, 29 cm x 22.5 cm.

Sold for £35

Allen William Seaby (1867-1953), "Spring on Dartmoor", coloured woodcut, signed in pencil in margin, circa 1920/30's, 22 cm x 32.5 cm.

Sold for £160

John Dawson Watson, "The Coachman", initialled and dated 1885, watercolour, 57.5 cm x 35.5 cm.

Sold for £45

English School, 19th century, coastal scene with cliffs, unsigned, watercolour, 25 cm x 35.5.

Sold for £130

John Dawson Watson, three pencil studies of figures, initialled and dated 1871, mounted under single frame and a further sketch by the same hand of an elderly beggar, initialled and dated 1888, largest 29.5 cm x 15.5 cm.

Sold for £40

Gilbert Baldry (1876-1928), oil on board, "The Wishing Well". 32.5 cm x 21.5 cm, framed, signed (see illustration).

Sold for £900

English School, 19th century, "Sizergh Castle, Near Kendal", unsigned, watercolour, 18 cm x 21.5 cm.

Sold for £30

John Birney (British, 20th century) "The Pikes of Great Langdale from Lingmoor" and "Wasdale's Giants (The Scafells) from Buckbarrow" a pair, signed, watercolour, ink inscribed artists label verso, 37.5 cm x 54 cm.

Sold for £160

Edward Lyon (British, 20th century), "Old Quay - Whitehaven", signed, watercolour, 22.5 cm x 33 cm.

Sold for £170

Attributed to William Anslow Thornbery (British, 1847-1907), "Fishing Boats off the Coast at Sunset and Moonlight" (possibly off the Kent coast), a pair, the sunset example signed lower left, oils on canvas, 25.5 cm x 46 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £500 - £700

Ron Green (British, 20th century), boats and cranes, Workington, signed, watercolour, 32.5 cm x 24 cm.

Sold for £160

Theodore Zimmerman, pastel, "Madam Zimmerman and Family on the Beach at Le Touquet", signed and inscribed verso and bearing the artists atelier stamp.

Sold for £200

Brian G Healey (20th century British), "Grisedale Pike from Friars Crag" signed, watercolour, 50.5 cm x 70 cm.

Sold for £80

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), "Coniston Water", signed and dated 1931, 17.7 cm x 25.5 cm.

Sold for £280

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), "Low Moor Point, Seascale", signed, watercolour, 23.5 cm x 43 cm.

Sold for £260

Attributed to Giuseppe Gozzini (Italian fl. 1824-1870), after Raphael, St Cecilia and Madonna of the Goldfinch, a pair, each mounted oval within an Italianate carved and giltwood ivy leaf and berry frame, oil on composition board, each with applied labels verso for "E. Castelar and Philpot & Jackson", Picture Dealers, Florence", image 21.5 cm x 17 cm, frames 43.5 cm x 33 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £420

Two 18th century portraits of gentlemen, each wearing a white wig, oil on canvas, painted oval, and a pencil sketch of a Georgian lady, heightened with body colour, mounted oval, largest 25.5. cm x 20.5 cm.

Sold for £280

A pair of 19th century miniature watercolours titled verso "courting a maiden - must sigh and must flatter" and "courting a widow - go to
the churchyard to get at her", mounted oval, 7.5 cm x 9 cm.

Sold for £60