COMING into view for Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s next antique sale today (Thursday, November 3) are a pair of marine oil paintings by William Barrett Spencer. Both depict the merchant sailing ship ‘Celerity’, one in full sail splendour on choppy waters (shown here) and the other buffeted and tattered in a heavy gale off the coast of Suffolk in 1882. Together these are estimated at £1000-£1200.
They form part of an interesting picture section that also includes a watercolour by Edward Lear of Stylida, in Greece, dated 1848 (est. £600-£800), and an oil on canvas of Horner Wood, Exmoor, by George Percy Jacomb-Hood, painted in 1904 (£400-£500).
A portrait of a champion bull terrier, ‘Faultless’, by the renowned canine artist Edward Aistrop, is expected to fetch £300-£400, as is a portrait of a Poldark-period young lady, believed to be a ‘Mrs Schrichlow’.
Among the other West Country scenes there is a Dartmoor landscape by Charles Edward Brittan (£70-£90); a pastel study of the Quantocks, near Crowcombe Gate by Barry Watkin (£40-£50). A ‘View from Dillington’, by Joy Barnes (£50-£70); and a watercolour of a moorland river bridge by Harry Frier (£200-£250).
The sale gets underway at The Octagon Salerooms, East Reach, Taunton, from 10am today (Thursday)
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