antiques and fine art sale

10th - 12th December 2025

Viewing - Sunday 7th 11am - 3 pm, Monday 8th 10 am - 5 pm, Tuesday 9th 10 am - 5 pm.

This is a three day sale starting at 10 am each day.  Day 1 Lots 1 to 463, Day 2 Lots 464 - 1069, Day 3 Lots 1070-1542.  You can bid on this sale online, by leaving bids with Mitchells by email only up to 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 either The Saleroom or Easy Live link above and follow the instructions given.  Please note if you use either of the online facilities you will pay additional charges.  CARD OR BANK TRANSFER PAYMENT ONLY

Lot 501

Robin Wallace (1897-1952), watercolour titled to the rear "The Farmstead", with Peter Howarth Carnforth label to the rear, together with Abbott Hall Art Gallery Kendal label. 42.5 x 30 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Lot 502

Sir Frank Brangwyn (British 1867-1956), etching "The Burden From L'Ombre de La Croxi", initialled in pencil.  5.5 x 5 cm, framed and mounted with Goldmark Gallery Rutland receipt to the rear (see illustration).

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 503

Gerald Lesley Brockhurst, an etching "Yolande (Mrs Rushbury)", signed in pencil 11 x 8.5 cm and with a Berkeley Square Gallery London receipt to the rear, marked etching 1920 edition of 55, framed and mounted.

Sold for £220

Lot 504

James Clarke Hook (British 1819-1907), an etching "A Few Minutes Before Dinner Time" 1857.  9 x 12.5 cm, framed and mounted, with Berkeley Square Gallery London label to the rear.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 505

Sir Hubert Hughes Stanton (1870-1937), sketch on paper. 22 x 27.5 cm, with receipt from Joe Bennett Original Pictures Cheshire and with note to rear Sir Hubert Hughes Stanton 1870-1937 Segovia to Madrid Conte crayon on toned paper, inscribed with title from the artists 1905 sketchbook.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 506

John Linnell (1792-1882), a pencil drawing signed and dated 1842 of Thomas More Palmer, who was Samuel and Hannah Palmers first child, the drawing is illustrated in Samuel Palmer A Biography 1974 by Raymond Lister, illustrated page 65, with receipt to the rear by Agnew's 43 Old Bond Street London.  18.5 x 23 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £1600

Lot 507

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), three etchings from the Dingo Suite, a set of etchings to illustrate text by Octave Mirbeau edition of 350, with Goldmark Gallery Rutland label to the rear.  Each etching 5.5 x 19.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Lot 508

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), an etching from the Dingo Suite, a set of etchings to illustrate text by Octave Mirbeau edition of 350, with Goldmark Gallery Rutland label to the rear.  14 x 13 cm, framed and mounted (see illustration).

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 509

Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), an etching "Opening The Fold" also known as "Early Morning From the Eclogues of Virgil", circa 1880. 11.5 x 17.5 cm, with Goldmark Gallery Rutland receipt to the rear.

Sold for £200

Lot 510

Felix Kelly (British 1914-1994), lithograph "Drifter and Steamers", printed at The Baynard Press for School Prints Ltd London.  41.5 x 68 cm, framed and mounted and with Goldmark Gallery Rutland receipt to the rear. ARR (see illustration).

Sold for £95

Lot 511

Tom Gentleman (1882-1966), lithograph The Grey Horses, printed in England by the Baynard Press for School Prints Ltd London.  48 x 75 cm, with receipt from The Goldmark Gallery Rutland. ARR.

Sold for £120

Lot 512

In the manner of Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe OBE RE RA (1901-1979), pencil sketch of a Spoonbill dated May '78, monogrammed to the bottom right. 16.5 x 12.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £150 - £250

Lot 513

David Cox RWS (1783-1859), an unsigned work depicting ladies with dog, with name to the mount and labelled to rear David Cox out of an old portfolio of drawings belonging to Mrs Roberts of Birmingham who was a great friend of David Cox.  12 x 17.5 cm, framed and mounted (see illustration).

Sold for £54

Lot 514

Henry James Townsend (1810-1890), and etching "The Woodbreakers". 10.5 x 15 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 515

An oil on canvas portrait of a young lady with bonnet. 34 x 24 cm, framed.

Sold for £35

Lot 516

An early 19th century oil on panel The Ascension of Christ, with writing to the rear, possibly dated 1827. 13.5 x 11 cm in a heavy gilt frame.

Sold for £110

Lot 517

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), a watercolour Lake District scene with sailing boats, signed and dated 1921. 16 x 26 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £120 - £180

Lot 518

An 18th century antiquarian print depicting antiquity fragments. 61 cm x 40 cm, framed and glazed.

Sold for £25

Lot 519

Walter Field (1837-1901), a pair of watercolours "Haymaking" and "Companion", each 34 cm x 51 cm, both signed and dated 1886 and 1895 respectively (see illustration).

Sold for £500

Lot 520

Singleton Jowett (1878-1927), oil on canvas "The Friar". 39 cm x 28 cm in gilt frame, signed.

Estimated: £150 - £200

Lot 521

An oil painting on canvas, portrait of a lady wearing a bonnet. 36 cm x 29 cm, in gilt and painted frame.

Sold for £120

Lot 522

A framed and glazed antiquarian map of Hampshire, marked verso Teasdale 1830. 41 cm x 33.5 cm.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 523

After George Morland, an antiquarian engraving "Pigs in Barn 1807". 52 cm x 61 cm.

Estimated: £60 - £80

Lot 524

After George Morland, a pair of antiquarian engravings "Cottage Family" and "Shepherds Meal", engraved by J R Smith published 1803. Each 55 cm x 40 cm in ebonised frame.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Lot 525

Albert Durer Lucas (1828-1918), two oil paintings, the first  "Meadow Brown with Harebells and Other Flowers" painted on canvas, signed and dated 1881.  24 cm x 19 cm. The second on board depicting clouded yellow butterfly.  24 cm x 19 cm, signed and dated 1908.

Sold for £700

Lot 526

Albert Durer Lucas (1828-1918), oil on canvas "Butterflies and Flowers".  19 cm x 14.5 cm, signed and dated 1889.

Sold for £550

Lot 527

Albert Durer Lucas (1828-1918), oil on board "Violets with Butterfly". 19.5 cm x 14 cm, framed signed and dated 1893 (see illustration).

Sold for £650

Lot 528

E Edwards, oil on board of a shoreline inlet. 54 cm x 22 cm, framed mounted and glazed.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 529

Sonja Chambers (contemporary artist), oil on canvas pond scene. 53 cm x 39 cm, framed.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 530

Attributed to Sir Edwin Landseer, a study of two ducks January 1833 with note to back, pencil study with indistinct monogram to bottom left-hand corner. 19.5 cm x 15 cm, framed mounted and glazed.

Sold for £170

Lot 531

Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988 Italian American),  signed original etching 1957 farm scene and fields.  24 cm x 28 cm, framed mounted and glazed.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 532

Frank Short 1884, two 19th century etchings, "Billingsgate" 12.5 cm x 20 cm, and "London Bridge on The Thames", 25 cm x 18 cm, framed mounted and glazed.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 533

Wilk John William Wilkinson (1906-1994), two watercolour cartoons depicting Carol Singers dated 1988 and Fox and Hounds dated 1988, both 18 cm x 13 cm, framed mounted and glazed.

Sold for £110

Lot 534

S Bough, watercolour 29.5 cm x 24 cm, framed mounted and glazed (see illustration).

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 535

A mid Victorian watercolour "Rosmerryn Near Falmouth" October 1854.

Sold for £40

Lot 536

Two watercolours, one signed J Warner of a cottage and church. 35 cm x 25 cm, mounted framed and glazed and a 1910 watercolour of The Bungalows at Braystones, signed May Newcombe, 29.5 cm x 19.5 cm, glazed and framed.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 537

A watercolour of boats at evening time, signed M E Browning. 27 cm x 37 cm, mounted framed and glazed.

Sold for £30

Lot 538

A 1920's Continental watercolour "Santa Maria de Campo", Italian, monogrammed JWL (John W Little) 30 cm x 38 cm, mounted glazed and framed.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 539

L Burleigh Bruhl, a pair of continental watercolours, signed bottom right-hand corner. 25 cm x 35 cm, framed.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 540

J Humphrey, pair of watercolours boating scene and country lane, signed bottom right. 37 cm x 21 cm, mounted and framed and an indistinctly signed similar boating scene. 37 cm x 26 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 541

Mallinson an artist proof coloured etching "Buttermere", image 32 cm x 42 cm, signed in pencil.

Sold for £32

Lot 542

J Calano, watercolour of an Arabic scene camels unloading in front of a temple. 46 cm x 28 cm, signed in gilt mount and frame.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 543

G Rodilosso (British artist from Bolton), oil on canvas of Buttermere. 41 cm x 33 cm, in gilt frame.

Sold for £60

Lot 544

Claudio Pallini (1943 to present contemporary Italian artist), pair of oil on canvases rural Tuscany scene of buildings.  20 cm x 30 cm, glazed framed and mounted. ARR.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 545

Annie Hudson, acrylic charcoal pastel graphite titled "Skiddaw Fells".  17 x 34 cm, signed and dated '08 and with artists label to rear Studio 3F Farfield Mill Sedbergh, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25

Lot 546

A 19th century oil on panel, landscape with windmill and peasant on horseback. 16.5 x 21.5 cm, framed.

Sold for £600

Lot 547

A mid 19th century naïve oil on canvas, young boy on horseback. 34 x 40 cm, framed.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Lot 548

Mark Hunt, signed limited edition print titled "Field Flowers II", signed and dated '96 and numbered 23/30. 29 x 30 cm framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

Lot 549

George Oswald Cribbes (1903-1967), watercolour "Fishing Boats", marked to the rear with artist.  25 x 34 cm, framed and mounted. ARR.

Sold for £25

Lot 550

Patrick Hughes (born 1939), a screen print titled "Pile Of Discarded Rainbows", signed and dated '73.  74 x 99 cm, framed. ARR.

Sold for £220

Lot 551

Patrick Hughes (born 1939), signed limited edition print titled "Rest Of The Rainbow" 121/225, signed and dated '81.  42 x 60 cm, framed. ARR.

Sold for £120

Lot 552

Evgenia Vasiloude (Cyprus), a lino cut titled "Demetra II", labelled to the rear exhibited Brewery Northern Arts dated 1997.  58 x 37 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 553

A pastel drawing Lakeland scene, initialled AP. 31 x 37 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

Lot 554

Mark Hunt, an artists proof abstract. 34 x 34.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £35

Lot 555

Thomas Carlton Grant RBA (1858-1959), watercolour boy fishing by a canal with barge and heavy horses, signed and dated 1898.  19 x 36 cm, framed and mounted. ARR.

Sold for £80

Lot 556

E Goodridge (Australian?), oil on board, signed and dated '8 titled to rear "Eucalyptus Tree". 35 x 45 cm, framed.

Sold for £35

Lot 557

Attributed to James Edward Duggins (1881-1968), oil on panel "Boats at Aldborough", with label to rear.  29 x 39 cm, framed. ARR.

Sold for £100

Lot 558

Gayter Smith, watercolour house and boats on estuary, titled to rear "Coastlands of Essex by Gaytor Smith". 23 x 43 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 559

Sir Hugh Casson (1910-1999), two watercolours, the first "Godferhead" dated '93.  14 x 19 cm, together with another "Sheep in Lakeland Landscape", both framed and mounted.

Sold for £35

Lot 560

Patricia Sadler, watercolour still life flowers with a vase titled to rear "Bluebells" and with Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth label.  17 x 18.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £85

Lot 561

Jennifer Moore, watercolour titled to the rear "Yellow Tulip".  34 x 18 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £50

Lot 562

James Hawkins (Scottish born 1954), oil on paper titled to the rear "Top End of Rhidorroch".  19 x 27 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £60

Lot 563

Alan Chapman, watercolour "Early Snow Clough Head" with Castlegate Gallery Cockermouth label to the rear.  14.5 x 43 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 564

Douglas R Holloway, watercolour market place scene with vehicles and figures, signed D R Holloway and with Dallas Inman Gallery Preston label to the rear.  25 x 34 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 565

Attributed to George Weatherill (1810-1890), watercolour Whitby quayside with Chris Beatles Ltd English Watercolours label to the rear.  21 x 31.5 cm, framed and mounted (see illustration).

Sold for £1300

Lot 566

William Heaton Cooper RA (1903-1995), watercolour titled to the rear "Silver Gleams Crummock Water".  37 x 55 cm, framed and mounted (see illustration).

Sold for £2200

Lot 567

A Victorian watercolour Alpine scene, with town and figures on a hill pass, signed to the lower left dated 1861.  42 x 68 cm, framed and mounted (see illustration).

Estimated: £100 - £150

Lot 568

Robert Brindley RSMA, oi on board, titled to rear "Spring Meadows Armathwaite Cumbria", with Lake Artist Society label.  40 x 50 cm, framed.

Sold for £70

Lot 569

Jean Claude Brulere (born 1943), oil on canvas depicting winter trees and house with label to the rear King Street Galleries Ltd London, titled "Paysage" and dated 17/5/76.  45 x 53.5 cm, framed (see illustration).

Sold for £170

Lot 570

James Watt RGI (Scottish 1931-2022), oil on canvas, fishing boats and lighthouse, marked to the rear Sgarbh Crinan Lighthouse.  34 x 49 cm, framed.  ARR

Sold for £300

Lot 571

Tom Oldham (1928-2019), oil on canvas titled to the rear "Lanterns", a still life with lantern, various bottles, flowers etc, signed and with label to rear Yew House Farm Newbiggin on Lune Kirkby Stephen Cumbria.  62 x 74 cm, framed (see illustration).  ARR

Sold for £220

Lot 572

William Manners (1860-1930), watercolour, titled to rear "the Beacon" with image 9 x 14 cm, with London House Gallery Long Melford Suffolk label to rear, marked William Manners flourished 1885-1910 Yorkshire landscape painter elected RBA in 1893, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 573

A pair of Victorian watercolours, still lifes of flowers and fruit, the first signed W Woodhouse 30 x 22 cm, the second signed WW 13 x 22 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £20

Lot 574

Wilson Carr (pseudonym for Paul H Ellis), two watercolours, the first depicting figures and church in a rural landscape, the second figures on a seashore with boats. 18 x 26 and 18 x 28 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 575

A watercolour depicting Aldingham Church (Aldingham in Furness Cumbria), signed to the lower left possibly William McDonnell. 26 x 37 cm framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 576

A Victorian watercolour village and beach scene, possibly signed Woodhouse. 24 x 34 cm framed and mounted.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 577

Hubert Coutts (1850-1921), watercolour Lake District landscape with sheep and figure, signed. 25 x 41 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 578

Norman Scott, watercolour titled to the rear "The Tarn Reflections", signed N O Scott addressed 25 Moorhead Crescent Shipley Yorks. 31.5 x 42 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 579

Henry John Kinnaird (1880-1920), oil painting on canvas harvest scene in landscape with figures and cottages. 39 x 59.5 cm in an ornate gilt frame.

Sold for £550

Lot 580

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), watercolour "Derwentwater and Friars Crag", signed and dated 1922. 29 x 44 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £380

Lot 581

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), watercolour "Ennerdale". 17 x 24.5 cm, framed.

Sold for £220

Lot 582

A pencil drawing of a lady with cat. 23 cm x 17 cm, indistinctly signed bottom right corner and dated 1911 in gilt frame.

Sold for £40

Lot 583

Francis E Jamieson (1895-1950), oil on canvas "Loch Katrine".  38.5 cm x 59 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £120

Lot 584

Francis E Jamieson (1895-1950), oil painting on canvas "In The Trossachs".  38.5 cm x 58.5 cm, framed, signed (see illustration).

Sold for £150

Lot 585

After T Cartwright, a pair of antiquarian prints "A View Taken on The Water Opposite The New Bath Matlock" and "A View of the High Tor Matlock", plates 1 and 2. 50 cm x 64 cm in Hogarth frames.

Sold for £40

Lot 586

James Charles Maggs (often known as John 1819-1896), oil on canvas coaching and foxhunting scene. 34.5 cm x 85 cm, framed, signed.

Estimated: £250 - £350

Lot 587

R Martin Tomlinson (20th century British), a watercolour "Tarn Hows", signed and dated 1971. 16 x 23 cm, framed.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 588

John C Staples (19th century), a pen and ink sketch montage for "Selina's Destiny and The Dead Rabbit", from The Told in The Twilight series (Weatherley), children's book dated 1884. 17 x 12 cm, in modern mount and framed.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Lot 589

Wilfred Stanley Pettitt (1904-1978), an oil painting on board Norfolk estuary, signed, framed. 25 x 30 cm.

Sold for £140

Lot 590

R K Pearson (19th/20th century), a watercolour "Street View at Honfleur" indistinctly signed and dated (19)00, unframed. 27 x 18 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 591

Donald Ayers (English contemporary artist 1936- present day), oil on board of a Rockliffe Dumfries and Galloway coastal scene. 40 cm x 30 cm, framed.

Sold for £170

Lot 592

Donald Ayers (English contemporary artist 1936- present day), oil on board of Highland Cattle in a Loch scene "Highland Cow at Loch Linnhe". 40 cm x 30 cm, framed.

Sold for £110

Lot 593

Donald Ayers (English contemporary artist 1936- present day), oil on board of a Highland scene with Scottish Cattle "The Old Road Glencoe 1994".  40 cm x 30 cm, framed.

Sold for £190

Lot 594

Donald Ayers (English contemporary artist 1936- present day), oil on board of a Loch scene with Highland Cattle.  40 cm x 30 cm, framed.

Sold for £110

Lot 595

Paul Barry Hardcastle (1949-2021), two large lake scenes painted on board, 168 cm x 40 cm. ARR.

Sold for £70

Lot 596

Luke Henri Mottu (Swiss School), watercolour and gouache cottage by a lake. 18 cm x 24 cm, signed and dated 1833, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 597

A watercolour by Frank Huro 1978, "Quaint Corner in Mallorca". 31 cm x 43 cm, framed mounted and glazed.

Sold for £25

Lot 598

William Walcott (British 1874-1943), signed etchings The Library, Venice, Palazzo, Ducale and The Strand London. 14 cm x 18 cm and 12 cm x 18 cm, both signed, framed glazed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 599

Patricia Sadler (Contemporary Scottish artist), acrylic watercolour mixed media "Lilies", framed, glazed, mounted and signed  64 cm x 60.5 cm. ARR.

Sold for £300

Lot 600

Patricia Sadler (Contemporary Scottish artist), Tulips in a white jug.  34 x 34 cm, framed, glazed, mounted and signed. ARR.

Sold for £180