Lincoln Fine Art Auction

By William Gregory MRICS, Golding Young and Mawer.

April’s Lincoln Fine Art Auction consisted of 356 lots, with 95% sold.

The auction set sail with Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore’s oil on canvas, Masted ships setting out to open waters, as Lot 1, doubling its pre-auction estimate as the hammer fell at £2,000. Stanfield Moore was born in Nottingham in 1803 and established himself as an artist in his late twenties, exhibiting his work at the Nottingham Castle Art Museum and the Nottingham Society of Artists.

LS Lowry works regularly appear at the fine art auction. An artist signed coloured print titled Fever Van achieved a healthy amount at £2,400.

Fever Van depicts an ambulance arriving at a Salford terrace house to collect a patient as many recognisable Lowry style figures look on.

Next, a Paris winter scene by Sarah Sophia Beale (1837-1920) sold for £1,800. The artist travelled to Paris regularly and this example was dated 1879.

Peter Brannan (1926-1994) was very much a Lincolnshire artist. His 1981 oil on board village scene, achieved a top bid of £400. Whilst born in Belgium in 1867, Frank Brangwyn, is regarded as a Welsh artist. Known not just for painting and drawing but also as a sculptor and illustrator.

Of 13 Frank Brangwyn lots offered at auction, river bridge, a watercolour sketch, claimed most interest, selling for £550.

Finally, a group of works by Australian artist, Hewitt Henry Rayner (1902-1957), saw an etching of Sir Winston Churchill, along with Downing Street correspondence, sell for £200.

Full results from the auction can be found at www.goldingyoung.com

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