Our recent January sale saw a hammer price of £75,000 for a fabulous Joseph Wright portrait that had been in the family that commissioned it originally until now.

Joseph Wright ARA, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as “the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution”.

If you have something special like this and would like to get it valued for possible sale at top value; please get in touch in complete confidence.

To see more pictures you can visit the catalogue entry HERE.

The final day of our recent Autumn auction included nearly 500 lots from a single owner private collection. Every lot was keenly contested and the top of the day was this truly unique 16th century oak carving of Henry VIII enthroned selling at a hammer price of £96,000.

The late Patrick Kelly was ‘an eclectic collector of the things he loved’ and would have been delighted to see this wonderful piece reach ten times the anticipated hammer price.

If you have something special like this and would like to get it valued for possible sale at top value; please get in touch in complete confidence.

To see more pictures you can visit the catalogue entry HERE.

You can listen to a BBC interview about this sale below. Click PLAY below the image:

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