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antiques & fine art sale

27th - 29th November 2024

This is a three day sale starting at 10 am each day.  Day 1 Lots 1 - 631, Day 2 Lots 632 - 1123 and Day 3 Lots 1124 - 1670.  You can bid on this sale online, by leaving bids with Mitchells by email only upto 9.30 am on the day of sale (info@mitchellsantiques.co.uk) or by attending the saleroom and registering to bid.  To bid online please click on the Saleroom link and follow the instructons given.  Please note if you use the online facility you will pay both our buyer's premium of 22% + VAT and The Saleroom charge of 4.95% + VAT on the hammer.  CARD PAYMENT ONLY

Viewing: Sunday 24th November 11 am - 3 pm, Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th 10 am - 5 pm,  also throughout each sale day.

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Lot 741

Julian Cooper (born 1947), oil on canvas "Scafell Crag" 2001. 156" x 120" (396 cm x 304 cm). Provenance: This painting has hung in the atrium of Rheged Discovery Centre near Penrith since Prime Minister Tony Blair unveiled it at the centre's opening in 2001. The Mountain Heritage Trust commissioned the painting in 2000. The picture shows Scafell Crag in the distance with Pikes Crag in the foreground. The figures are some of Julian's friends and family who posed for the painting by climbing the routes of Moss Ghyll Grooves on Scafell Crag, and Crenation Ridge on Pikes Crag (see illustration).

A spokesman for the MHT said "The Mountain Heritage Trust is excited by the forthcoming sale of Julian Cooper's wonderful Scafell Crag, which many may remember from hanging at Rheged during the time of the National Mountaineering Exhibition. With the painting finding a new owner, the MHT will be able to further their important aims of preserving, conserving and cataloguing their outstanding collections of archives and objects related to British Mountaineering and Climbing that are held at its accommodation in Threlkeld" ARR.

Sold for £7000

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