antiques & fine art sale - main saleroom

A collection of silver spoons, pierced basket etc. Gross weight 202 grams.

Sold for £200

A hallmarked silver canoe. Length 12.5 cm, hallmarks rubbed, together with a silver covered bible, letter knife, silver and mother of pearl fruit knife etc. Various makers and dates.

Sold for £48

A christening mug, with engraving dated 1943, makers mark rubbed Birmingham 1939, with original case. Height 8 cm, weight 92 grams.

Sold for £85

A silver card tray by D & J Welby Ltd, Garrick Street London 1924. Length 18 cm, gross weight 240 grams.

Sold for £240

A miniature five piece silver tea service, the tray handle to handle 12 cm, makers mark Thomas Ducrow & Sons Birmingham 1951, the other four pieces by Chick & Sons Ltd, date letter Y 1973. Gross weight 75 grams.

Sold for £85

A pair of hallmarked silver candlesticks, with filled bases by Mappin & Webb Birmingham 1978. Gross weight 422 grams.

Sold for £120

A set of Mappin & Webb silver apostle spoons and sugar nips, Sheffield 1904 in a Mappin & Webb 2 Queen Victorian Street London box. Silver gross weight 121 grams.

Sold for £85

Seven silver napkin rings, to include five semi circular and foliate engraved holders, makers mark rubbed Birmingham 1904, together with two circular holders Birmingham 1918 by G F Westwood & Sons.  Weight 165 grams.

Sold for £180

T S Hutton? a late Victorian watercolour, depicting a seaside village. 25 x 45 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £45

Three Lake District and Yorkshire watercolours, Henry Robinson Wilkinson (1884-1975) "The First Snow Coniston Fells". 26 x 36 cm, Fred Lawson 18 x 27 cm, framed and mounted, Cooke 16.5 x 24 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £100

Kenneth Macleay RSA Scottish (1802-1878), a watercolour depicting a Highland dairy maid with loch castle and mountain to rear, signed with note to rear Kenneth Macleay RSA Highland Dairy Maid, this watercolour was exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy in 1871 exhibit No. 294.  22 x 18 cm, framed and mounted, together with a watercolour of Swanston Pentland Hall dated 1906 and initialled M T to left-hand side with newspaper cutting to rear "Swanston Cottage Memories of R L S (Robert Louis Stevenson).  15 x 24 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

M Donat, oil on panel, gentleman fishing in a woodland river, signed M Donat and with label to rear from W Fieldhouse Carver and Guilder 5 Mercer Row Louth. 16.5 x 24 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £120

Gareth Fisher PRSA (President of The Royal Scottish Academy, born 1951), two watercolours, marked to the rear "The Alessandria Series" No. 47 and 18. 9.5 x 14.5 cm, framed, comes with original bill of sale.

Sold for £45

A watercolour "Edinburgh Georgian New Town Moray Place", initialled to bottom right-hand side and No. 10, with note to rear Edinburgh Georgian New Town Moray Place, watercolour mixed media price £1150. 40 x 51 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £110

Watercolour "Ludlow Early Autumn Morning", initialled, dated 00. 35 x 40 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25

Two watercolours, the first "The Al-Azhar Mosque Cairo", initialled and dated 2/2000. 38 x 28 cm, framed and mounted and with the Court Gallery East Moseley label to rear, together with a harbour scene, initialled by the same artist, dated 15/9/98.

Sold for £20

Frederick Donald Blake (1908-1997), watercolour goauche cottage with trees. 34 x 47 cm, framed and mounted, with the Fraser Carver Gallery Surrey label to the rear.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Three watercolours, all indistinctly signed, the first depicting Notre Dame. 32 x 25 cm, framed and mounted, together with a similar scene 30 x 23 cm and a street scene, 24 x 35 cm.

Sold for £60

Ceri Richards (Welsh 1903-1971), an artists proof lithograph "Music room From The Beethoven Suite", signed. 50 x 58 cm.

Sold for £150

Thomas William Morley (1883-1931), watercolour "Cottage in the Woods". 40 x 29 cm, framed.

Sold for £30

Phyllis S Watters, an engraving of a city market place, with label to rear "Modern British Painting Wendy Bray The Old Rectory Rugby Warwicks, Phyllis E Watters ARCA etcher London Exhibited 1923-27", 20 x 25 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £20

Edward Leslie Badham (1873-1944), watercolour view of Hastings. 8 x 10 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £50

A late 19th/early 20th century watercolour, depicting country house with fields figures and trees. 12.5 x 27.5 cm.

Sold for £15

Jill Aldersley (1943-2007), member of The Lake Artist Society, two watercolours "The Isle of Skye Scotland".  12 x 16.5 cm and 16.5 x 11.5 cm, both framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Jill Aldersley (1943-2007), member of The Lake Artist Society, two watercolours, the first "Rainy Day Ben Nevis From Banavie".  20 x 25 cm, framed and mounted, together with "Clearing Rain Llanberis Wales".  14 x 19 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), watercolour titled to rear "Near Ravenglass" initialled P K with Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth labels to the rear, framed and mounted, purchased from Mitchells in 2018.  20 x 28 cm, framed and mounted. ARR.

Sold for £500

John Edward Meade (1909-1982), watercolour with pen and ink "Bric a Brac Shop". 23 x 31 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lars Petter Sjostrom (Swedish 1820-1896), watercolour "Anniversary of Blyth Captain Edward Forster", depicting a twin masted sailing ship. 47 x 83 cm, framed.

Sold for £70

Jim Ridout (born 1946), watercolour "Clouds Breaking Over Eel Tarn". 39 x 64 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £38

Emma Ridout, watercolour depicting Brotherswater.  33 x 53 cm, signed, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

After Adriaen van Ostade, a 17th century antiquarian print of a cottage scene with figures and animals and another similar.  14.5 cm x 18 cm and 18.5 cm x 16.5 cm, each in Hoggarth frame.

Estimated: £100 - £150

A Victorian watercolour, depicting girl in stream, initialled to the bottom right possibly B F. 34 x 24 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Oswald Garside (1879-1942), watercolour of a beach scene, signed lower left. 46 cm x 21 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25

Anthony Day (1922-2023), watercolour depicting a Fenland scene with forest, reeds wildfowl etc. 55 x 72 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Michael Bennett (1934-2016), an oval painting "Small Storm Second Series Study No. 5", watercolour collage acrylic, signed and dated 1976.  15 x 20 cm, framed and mounted.  ARR

Sold for £50

A pair of late 19th century oval pictures, people having tea in gilt frames. Frame size 30.5 x 35.5 cm.

Sold for £22

Winifred Slater, seven watercolours to include The Langdales and various Lake District cottages.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Sandra Blow RA (British 1925-2006), signed limited edition print "Transparency" 24/130. Framed and mounted, image size 51 x 53 cm, sheet size 77.5 x 78 cm ARR.

Sold for £320

Sandra Blow RA (British 1925-2006), signed limited edition print "Transparency" 23/130.  Image size 51 x 53 cm, sheet size 71 x 71 cm. ARR.

Sold for £270

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

Estimated: £15 - £25

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.

Sold for £28

Auguste Lepere (1849-1918), an etching "Dimanche Sur La Plage". 14.5 x 21.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £20

W Martin, an oil painting on canvas steam tug and other sailing vessels off a pier. 29.5 cm x 44 cm, framed.

Sold for £65

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: £50 - £80

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.

Sold for £45

No lot.

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: £20 - £30

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: £25 - £35

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.

Sold for £80

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.

Sold for £48

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.

Sold for £50

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

Sold for £140

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

Sold for £30

Donald A Paton (Edward Horace Thompson 1879-1949), a watercolour "The Screes at Wastwater". 16.5 cm x 24 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £85

A pair of 19th century oil paintings on paper, river scenes. 19 cm x 43 cm, framed.

Sold for £48

Edward Tucker (1830-1909), watercolour possibly Derwentwater. 16 x 32 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £30

Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham, watercolour "Buttermere". 19.5 cm x 29 cm, framed, signed and dated 1852.

Sold for £55

R Carr watercolour "Off the South Coast Cumbria", 24 cm x 39 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £35

Edward Tucker (1830-1909), a watercolour "probably a view in Southern Lakeland". 29 cm x 47 cm, framed, signed.

Estimated: £25 - £35

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

Sold for £190

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

Estimated: £15 - £25

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

Estimated: £60 - £80

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: £70 - £100

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

Sold for £380

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 (3).

Sold for £25

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.

Sold for £25

No lot.

Harry Sutton Palmer (1854-1933), watercolour "A Peep Through The Birches Ullswater", signed bottom right. 25.5 x 35.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £240

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

Sold for £15

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.

Sold for £40

Two antiquarian maps Northamptonshire, framed and mounted. 36 cm x 28.5 cm and The North Riding of Yorkshire by Robert Morden, 41 cm x 35 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £38

A 19th century oil on canvas, country scene figure walking down a lane, in giltwood frame.  23 cm x 28.5 cm.

Sold for £70

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: £20 - £30

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

Sold for £70

J H Bachelor (1936-2019), pair of watercolour Battleship pictures, signed bottom right-hand corner, glazed and mounted. 23 cm x 17.5 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), Donald A Paton, watercolour titled to the rear "A Peat Moss Scottish Borderland". 24 x 35 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £140

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), watercolour "Windermere From Bowness Bay" with sailing boats and fishermen. 24 x 38 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £160

John Piper, RA (1903-92), abstract oil and collage on card 1962/63.  Early study for The Piper Building Murals in London.  10.5 cm x 12.5 cm overall, frame 36 cm x 35 cm.  Provenance P Manzareli, gift from the artist, Milne & Moller Fine Art, Catharine House Gallery, Private Collection Scotland. ARR.

Estimated: £1000 - £1500

Peter De Wint (1784-1849), watercolour a rural church with trees and houses, signed to the bottom right P De Wint. 24 x 41 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £60 - £80

No lot.

C A Youldon, oil on canvas, still life of chrysanthemum in jug.  54 cm x 44 cm, framed, not signed but with original receipt and label from City of Bradford Art Gallery April 1945 for £15 15/-.

Sold for £110

David Hicks late 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas, mountain and loch scene, signed to bottom left. 52 x 42 cm, in a gilt frame.

Sold for £300

Ghent (1856-1911), village scene with donkey and cart filled with geese, signed Peter Ghent RCA, with note to rear "No 2 a south country village, Peter Ghent Conwy", also marked cleaned and restored Renaissance Studios 1957. 39 x 60 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

J Hill late 19th/early 20th century watercolour, lake and mountain scene, signed to the bottom J Hill. 55 x 38 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

No lot

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), signed print Highgate Kendal. 19 x 24 cm, framed.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Herbert Wigglesworth, watercolour signed and dated 1935, thought to be The South Downs. 24 x 34 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

A pastel portrait of a lady with flowers, in an oval frame. Image size 58 x 47 cm.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Antonio Enrico Fiorentino (1894-1962), watercolour two portraits female figures. 31 x 22 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Attributed to William Monk RE (1863-1937), charcoal portrait of a lady, with label to rear "This charming pastel portrait is from a studio collection circa 1900".  22 x 18 cm, framed.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Eloise Harriet Stannard (British 1829-1915), watercolour Dog Roses, signed and dated 1890.  21 x 16 cm, framed.

Sold for £30

Wilfred Williams Ball RBA RE (1853-1917), watercolour titled to the mount "The Village of Bosham Chichester Sussex". 15 x 21 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Len Roope (1917-2005), watercolour Old Cockermouth. 22 x 27.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Len Roope (1917-2005), watercolour Vale of Lorton December, signed and dated 1976. 25.5 x 36.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £120

Tim Gustard (born 1954), acrylic on paper still life with oriental vase silver jug, grapes apples and wine, singed to lower right, with Beckstones The Gallery Within label to the rear.  35 x 43 cm, framed and mounted. ARR.

Sold for £1000

Augustus John OM RA (British 1879-1961), pencil and watercolour sketch nude figure, signed John with various Trade labels to the rear.  45 x 25.5 cm, framed and mounted. ARR.

Sold for £250

Venus Griffiths (British 20th century), a set of four watercolours depicting Hares, the majority 8 x 10 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £95

Venus Griffiths (British 20th century), watercolour "Running Hare". 9 x 9 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25

Venus Griffiths (British 20th century), a pair of watercolours depicting Hares. 19.5 x 12.5 cm and 20 x 13 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £65

Diane Gainey, watercolour and crayon Friars Crag Derwentwater, signed and dated 1991. 19 x 29 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25