Art at auction

By William Gregory MRICS, Golding Young and Mawer.

A 19th-Century English School oil on canvas, Bull in a Landscape, took top price at the recent Lincoln Fine Art Auction, when it trebled the pre-sale estimate, selling for £1,150.

The picture was unsigned so the subject of the prize animal must have originally outweighed artistic merit, and still attracted interest some 170 years later.

A further unsigned picture made £420 at auction, with a better known subject, a seated portrait of Daniel Lambert (1770-1809). Lambert was born in Leicester, and was famous for his large size, playing in goal for Leicester and other sport pursuits.

He died in Stamford, Lincolnshire and is remembered by a Civic Society promoting his legacy and an exhibition at Leicester’s Newarke Houses Museum.

Again of Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire interest were four oils by Peter Brannan (1926-1994). All making over £300 each, with top price being £420 for an oil on canvas, Café Interior which was recorded as being exhibited in 1951 at the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society.

Also included within the 378 lot auction was a Charles Sansbury (1916-1989) welded metal abstract structure, which sold for £400.

A collection of 40 miniatures, from an estate clearance near Sleaford, totalled over £2,500, with a top price of £200 being paid for a 19th-century School portrait of a naval officer.

Full results from the auction held on 29th April 2026 can be found at www.goldingyoung.com

Main picture: Peter Brannan (1926-1994). Cafe Interior, oil on canvas, 25cm x 35cm. Sold for £420.

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