antiques & fine art sale

22nd - 24th March 2023

Viewing - Sunday 19th March 11 am to 3 pm, Monday 20th March 10 am - 5 pm, Tuesday 21st March 10 am - 5 pm and also throughout each sale day

Day 1 Wednesday 22nd at 10 am Lots 1 - 475

Day 2 Thursday 23rd at 10 am Lots 476 - 965

Day 3 Friday 24th at 10 am Lots 966 - 1414 

Lot 501

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Sunflower", watercolour. 26.5 cm x 16 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £1100

Lot 502

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Farmhouse", inscribed 1967, signed, watercolour. 26.5 cm x 20.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £800

Lot 503

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Rocky Island, Pembrokeshire", inscribed 25th December 1985, watercolour. 26.5 cm x 20 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £720

Lot 504

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Garden Poppy Losing Petals", inscribed 11th July 1990, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 215 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £580

Lot 505

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "A Yorkshire Dales Church", inscribed 1st January 1986, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £500

Lot 506

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Bird Invention", inscribed 30th March 1978, signed, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £500

Lot 507

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Orange Cones, Wigton Cumbria", inscribed 25th February 1985, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 19 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £2800

Lot 508

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "West Newton Near Allonby Cumberland 1958", inscribed 10th September 1983, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £650

Lot 509

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Maryport Church", watercolour. 20 cm x 25.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £1400

Lot 510

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Maryport Harbour", watercolour. 20.5 cm x 25 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £1200

Lot 511

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Orange Poppy", inscribed 24th June 1983, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £1000

Lot 512

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Carbrooke Church Norfolk", inscribed 10th March 1985, signed, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £650

Lot 513

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Lady in Purple", signed, watercolour. 21 cm x 29 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £2100

Lot 514

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Zennor Church Cornwall", inscribed 28th May 1983, signed, watercolour. 20 cm x 25 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £720

Lot 515

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Road to Fishguard", inscribed 3rd June 1990, signed, watercolour. 25 cm x 20 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £720

Lot 516

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Helpringham Lincolnshire", inscribed 26th May 1983, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £820

Lot 517

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Red Rose", inscribed 2nd July 1983, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 21 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £620

Lot 518

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Entre de la Ville Close Brittany", inscribed 2nd August 1990, watercolour. 21 cm x 29.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £750

Lot 519

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Village Council Houses Norfolk", inscribed 1st February 1984, signed, watercolour. 25 cm x 37.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £1700

Lot 520

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Former Magpie Inn Norfolk", inscribed 11th January 1984, signed, watercolour. 27.5 cm x 40 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £1900

Lot 521

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Brampton, Cumberland", inscribed 15th February 1984, signed, watercolour. 28 cm x 41.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £2900

Lot 522

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Blue Flowers", inscribed 22nd November 1983, signed, watercolour. 35 cm x 25 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £880

Lot 523

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Rooftops Lyng, Norfolk", inscribed 13th August 1983, signed, watercolour. 24 cm x 30.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £2000

Lot 524

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "West Cumberland Hamlet", watercolour. 26 cm x 36 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £3000

Lot 525

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Rhum Clouds and Pembrokeshire Cottage", illustrated 31st July 1992, watercolour. 35.5 cm x 51 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £880

Lot 526

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Gate, Foxgloves and Fells", watercolour. 7 cm x 13 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £800

Lot 527

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Swan Pen and Ink", watercolour. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £500

Lot 528

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Hingham Norfolk", watercolour on envelope with verso a work titled "Clematis". 23.5 cm x 31 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £720

Lot 529

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Stramongate Br Kendal", watercolour on envelope with verso, a work titled "Dove". 23.5 cm x 31 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £620

Lot 530

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Fuchsia", watercolour on envelope. 23.5 cm x 31 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £380

Lot 531

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Cottages in Window", watercolour on envelope with verso work titled "Ladybird". 23.5 cm x 31 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £450

Lot 532

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Yellow Cottage in Window", watercolour on envelope, with verso a work titled "Rose". 23.5 cm x 31 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £720

Lot 533

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Apple Blossoms", watercolour on envelope with verso work titled "Crocus". 23.5 cm x 31 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £500

Lot 534

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Study of a Robin", watercolour to the reverse of an envelope. 23.5 cm x 31 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £480

Lot 535

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Blue Boats", watercolour on envelope with work verso titled "Linocut Strands". 11 cm x 251. cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection. ARR

Sold for £700

Lot 536

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), "Green and Blue Boats on Beach", watercolour on envelope with work verso titled "Blue Boat". 11 cm x 21.5 cm, unframed. Provenance: The Joan David collection (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £820

Lot 537

After Sir Thomas Lawrence, a copper plate engraving Princess Metternich, engraved by Clifford R James. 37 cm x 33 cm and another similar after De La Riviere engraved by Gulland.

Sold for £85

Lot 538

A pair of 19th century Baxter prints, "The Letter" and "Companion". Each 37 cm x 26.5 cm with gilt mount and frame.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 539

A pair of 19th century oil paintings on canvas, Cockerel and Hens. Each 22 cm x 29 cm, framed.

Sold for £130

Lot 540

Arthur T Blamires (born 1930), "Across Borrowdale from Rosthwaite Watendlath Track", signed lower right, inscribed with artists name verso, oil on board. 25 x 29 cm. ARR

Sold for £130

Lot 541

Arthur T Blamires (born 1930), "The Geisle Gruppe, Italian Dolomites near Selva", signed lower right, inscribed verso with title, artist name and dated October 1991, oil on panel. 58 x 43 cm (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £150

Lot 542

Arthur T Blamires (born 1930), "The Langdale Pikes from The Path to Blea Tarn from Little Langdale", signed lower right and inscribed verso with title, artist name and dated '88. 40 x 50 cm. ARR

Sold for £240

Lot 543

Arthur T Blamires (born 1930), Grange in Borrowdale, signed lower right, oil on board. 35 x 58 cm. ARR

Sold for £70

Lot 544

Arthur T Blamires (born 1930), "Sgurr nan Gillean", signed lower right, oil on board, inscribed with title and artist name and dated '86 verso (see illustration). 49 x 75 cm. ARR

Sold for £150

Lot 545

Arthur T Blamires (born 1930), "The Furgg Valley and Matterhorn", signed lower right, inscribed verso with title, artists name and dated 1990, oil on board (see illustration). 59 x 44 cm. ARR

Sold for £280

Lot 546

A collection of watercolours and drawings etc, including George Earp watercolour "Shipping Off the Coast", 13.5 cm x 22.5 cm, a pencil drawing of Castle Howard by W Bury 1863, 24 cm x 34 cm, a watercolour of Watendlath Tarn, another of Hutton Lee Hole Yorkshire, a waterfall scene in landscape and a watercolour of Morant Lodge by Pat O'Brien (6).

Sold for £48

Lot 547

Peter S Britton a red admiral study, 20 cm x 15 cm, together with two watercolours "Marcus Aurelius Main Gate at Wilton House" and "Winter In The White Garden Cranborne Manor" and another of a waterfall by a different hand. Largest 34 cm x 23 cm all framed (4).

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 548

A pair of 19th century oil paintings on board, maritime scenes. Each 13.5 cm x 22 cm, framed, signed indistinctly with initials (see illustration)..

Sold for £420

Lot 549

A collection of miscellaneous antiquarian engravings, including "Les Graces Poissardes", various prints after Allom, botanic study, The Shambles York, "The Mew Stone", map of Plymouth, The Breakwater Lighthouse etc. (11)

Sold for £30

Lot 550

A miniature painting landscape mounted on hessian and in moulded frame, together with a Stevengraph "The Lady Godiva Procession", a multimedia flowers in vase picture and a miniature of Stonehenge (4).

Sold for £30

Lot 551

A collection of watercolours, including two by Roy Kerry "The Maypole Inn" and another "Oransay Argyll" by Ian Duncan, a watercolour by Jake Winkle "Resting" and another multimedia by Laura Bell. Largest 47 cm x 32 cm (6).

Sold for £90

Lot 552

Freda Marston, oil on canvas, still life Marigolds. 38 cm x 48 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £260

Lot 553

A 19th century oil painting on board, with label verso I Wikey artist colourman, together with another small oil on board "The Virgin Mary" copied from a print, a small pencil drawing and photograph. Largest 22 cm x 19 cm (4).

Sold for £50

Lot 554

After John Everett Millais, a black and white etching with blind stamp in ornate and original good quality gilt frame. Image size including margin 61 cm x 47 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 555

A portfolio of engravings, various including illustrations of St Ronans Well 1882, Heliog Du Jardin, Shakespearean Readings, Swift and Stellar, Moliere and Troupe etc. also Prince Albert 1843.

Sold for £40

Lot 556

Pat Cleary "A Room with a View, Langdale", inscribed with title on label verso, signed lower right, watercolour. 25 x 51 cm.

Estimated: £400 - £600

Lot 557

Frank Egginton (1908-1990), "Irish Croft", signed lower right and dated 1932, watercolour and pencil. 25 x 35 cm. ARR

Sold for £500

Lot 558

Charles Ernest Cundall (1890-1971), "Kings Mill Huddersfield", signed lower right, watercolour heightened with white, artist label verso inscribed in ink Charles Cundall, 25a Glebe Place, Chelsea SW3, together with gallery label Chapman Brothers, 241 Kings Road Chelsea. 23 x 35 cm (see illustration). ARR

Estimated: £250 - £350

Lot 559

William Callow RWS (1812-1908), "Vienne on The Rhone", inscribed with title lower left, watercolour, The Fine Arts Society Limited 148 New Bond Street, London W1 gallery label verso, inscribed in ink "Vienne on The Rhone" watercolour by William Callow RWS, September 1954. 23 x 32 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £600 - £800

Lot 560

B Austen (British School, late 19th century), Austen Lane Midhurst looking towards Close Walks, signed lower right, watercolour dated 1883. 33 x 24 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £70

Lot 561

George Henry Andrews (1816-1898), watercolour "Barrow Haematite Steel Company" showing the blast furnaces. 49 cm x 107 cm in original mount and gilt frame, signed and dated 1874. The frame with label verso Foord and Dickinson Carvers and Gilders Wardour Street (see illustration).

Sold for £3200

Lot 562

George Henry Andrews (1816-1898), watercolour "Barrow Haematite Steel Company" depicting the Bessemer steel sheds and rolling mills and stocks of rail, 49 cm x 107 cm in original gilt frame, signed and dated 1874. The original gilt frame bearing label verso Foord and Dickinson Carvers and Gilders Wardour Street (see illustration).

Sold for £4100

Lot 563

Edward Charles Simpson (1915-2007), a watercolour "The View from Kirkby Lonsdale Church Yard" (Ruskins View). 36 cm x 54 cm, framed, signed.

Estimated: £180 - £220

Lot 564

William Manners (1860-1893), a watercolour, figures in landscape with sheep. 20 cm x 29 cm.

Estimated: £150 - £200

Lot 565

No lot.

Lot 566

19th century Scottish School, oil painting on canvas, full length portrait William Wardrop Crawford 1824-1848. 70 cm x 50 cm, relined in original giltwood and gesso frame (see illustration).

Sold for £300

Lot 567

19th century Scottish School, oil painting on canvas, full length portrait of a gentleman. 70 cm x 50 cm, in original gilt frame (see illustration).

Sold for £350

Lot 568

After Sir Henry Raeburn, a late 19th/early 20th century oil painting on canvas "Margaret Balfour of Pilrig". 75 cm x 63 cm, in giltwood and gesso frame.

Sold for £240

Lot 569

19th century oil painting on canvas, portrait of Robert Russell 1806-1875. 74 cm x 62 cm, framed.

Sold for £80

Lot 570

Daniel MacNee P.R.S.A, oil on canvas, portrait of a businessman. 126 cm x 100 cm in original gilt frame, signed and dated 1878 and bearing brass plaque "Presented by the Managers and Travellers of J and W Campbell & Co Glasgow February 1878" (see illustration).

Sold for £380

Lot 571

A set of eight antiquarian hand coloured prints, humorous equestrian scenes. Each 9 cm x 14 cm, mounted and in Hogarth frames.

Sold for £48

Lot 572

Lawrence Stephen Lowry R.A. (1887-1976), Burford Church offset lithograph, printed in colours, signed and numbered 520/850, published by Grove Galleries Limited Manchester. 63 x 47 cm (SH) (see illustration). ARR

Sold for £1020

Lot 573

English School 19th century, a Pointer in a rural landscape, oil on canvas. 29 x 41 cm.

Sold for £190

Lot 574

Continental School mid 20th century, sailing boats in a waterway with building beyond, indistinctly signed lower right, oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £70

Lot 575

William Taylor Longmire (1841-1914), "Langdale Pikes and Falls" signed lower left and dated 1879, watercolour. 24 x 34.5 cm.

Sold for £48

Lot 576

June Bennett (1935-2013), "Icebergs at Kew", signed lower left, dated '86, oil on canvas. 41 x 46 cm. ARR

Sold for £280

Lot 577

Karen Wallbank, sheep and cottages in a Cumbrian rural landscape, signed with initials lower right, oil on canvas. 39 x 49 cm. ARR

Sold for £160

Lot 578

J Ingham Riley, Cumbrian winter landscape, signed lower right, watercolour. 18 x 27 cm.

Sold for £28

Lot 579

Manchester Corporation Water Works, plan showing works at Lake Thirlmere, print with printed colour, published by Henry Blacklock & Co colour printers Manchester. 21 x 46 cm (SH), together with an oval photograph of Lake Thirlmere (2).

Sold for £45

Lot 580

Mid 19th century, "Head of Windermere", watercolour and ink, inscribed with title and initials L.H.D., dated 1848. 21 x 28 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 581

Sidney Miller (British School 20th century), "Bowfell and Upper Eskdale", signed lower right, dated '65, watercolour over pencil. 35 x 51 cm.

Sold for £38

Lot 582

A collection of early 20th century fashion prints, depicting the Newest Fresh French Fashions and Modelled for The Young English Woman, handcoloured engravings, each 20 x 13 cm (12).

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 583

Ken Longcake, oil on board "Dusk" The stark reality of landscape. 77 cm x 102 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £140

Lot 584

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), a watercolour "The Head of Wastwater with Yewbarrow Crag and Great Gable". 18 cm x 25 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £300

Lot 585

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), a watercolour "Grange in Borrowdale". 25 cm x 36 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £550

Lot 586

Italian School, oil on board Near Venice. 28.5 cm x 38 cm, framed, indistinctly signed.

Sold for £40

Lot 587

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), a collection of four signed prints of The Lake District "Patterdale", "Bowfell from Lingmoor Fell", "The Coniston Fells" and "Langdale Pikes from Chapel Stile", various sizes (4).

Estimated: £200 - £300

Lot 588

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), a collection of nine unframed signed prints, all titled "Langdale Pikes from Chapel Stile", each 22 x 27 cm (SH). (9).

Estimated: £400 - £600

Lot 589

After Alfred Wainwright, an antiquarian map of Cumbria published by The Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. Printed by Westmorland Gazette Kendal. 69 x 49 cm (SH).

Sold for £150

Lot 590

No lot.

Lot 591

William Mellor (1851-1931), river running through a gorge with overhanging trees and rocks, signed lower left, oil on canvas. 72 x 91 cm.

Estimated: £300 - £500

Lot 592

Len Roope (1917-2005), Skiddaw from Embleton, signed lower right, inscribed with title, watercolour. 22.5 x 29 cm. ARR

Sold for £350

Lot 593

Attributed to Ilya Lvovich Kats (Russian School 20th century), a Russian peasant woman, pen and ink over pencil. 17 x 40 cm.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Lot 594

British School late 19th century, figures on a rocky coastline watching sailing vessels out at sea, oil on canvas. 34 x 59 cm.

Estimated: £60 - £80

Lot 595

June Bennett (1935-2013), oil on canvas "Tidal Patterns" Solway. 44 cm x 54 cm, framed, signed and dated '96 (see illustration). ARR.

Estimated: £500 - £800

Lot 596

June Bennett (1935-2013), acrylic on paper "Vineyard Windmill". 16.5 cm x 19 cm, framed, signed. ARR.

Sold for £200

Lot 597

Michael Bennett (1934-2016), oil on handmade paper "Sea Lovers Two". 27 cm x 23.5 cm, framed, signed, dated verso 2007. ARR.

Sold for £650

Lot 598

Michael Bennett (1934-2016), oil on handmade paper, "Two Women by The Sea No. 1". 27 cm x 25 cm, framed, signed and dated verso 2006 (see illustration). ARR.

Sold for £680

Lot 599

Michael Bennett (1934-2016), oil on board "Tree of Dreams", 23.5 cm x 26 cm, framed, signed and dated '07-09 (see illustration). ARR.

Sold for £680

Lot 600

Michael Bennett (1934-2016), oil on paper, "Two Women by The Sea No. 2". 27 cm x 18 cm, signed, framed. ARR.

Estimated: £300 - £400