The Winter Auction

A landscape view with a tree dominating the foreground and a hilltop castle ruins beyond, probably Brough Castle, watercolour, 51cm x 46cm

with tulips, poppies and sweet peas in a basket on a table, watercolour, 57 x 46 cm

Continental street scene with figures, inscribed 'Prout' in ink to the margin lower left, titled verso, watercolour, 20cm x 29.5cm

Provenance: Label verso reading "Sir Thomas Merrick, Gerald Oliver, Mrs F. H. Sheppard"

pencil, 26cm x 32cm

with shepherd at rest outside, watercolour, 18cm x 26cm

A serpent coiling itself around a pedestal adorned with portrait roundels and topped with a twin-handled urn, titled and signed "Landseer" upper right, ink and wash over pencil, 30cm x 20cm; together with a similar study of a hermit artist sheltering in a grotto, 30cm x 21cm (2), together with a set of five engravings by Heath and Sutherland

with a figure with drawn sword standing to one side, watercolour, 36cm x 26cm

signed lower right, titled lower left, watercolour, 27cm x 38cm Provenance: With Beaulieu Fine Art, Hampshire

pencil with coloured highlights, 22cm x 17cm

the sitter wearing a apron over a brown dress, watercolour, 33cm x 25cm

Provenance: The Whitbread Family, Southill Park, Bedfordshire

A portrait of a young lady, possibly George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), half length, the sitter holding a string of rosary beads, red chalk on paper, 26cm x 22cm

sepia watercolour, 38.5cm x 53cm

watercolour, 21cm x 15cm (oval); together with another similar example on a cut-out card with scrolls (2)

depicted bust-length, wearing a shawl with blue trim, watercolour, 22cm x 18.5cm. Provenance: The Whitbread Family, Southill Park, Bedfordshire

the sitter depicted wearing a red cloak and resting her hands on her lap, watercolour, 36.5cm x 28cm

watercolour, each 7cm x 10cm (oval) (2)

ship portrait at full sail flying the American flag, Vesuvius visible in the background, watercolour/bodycolour, 27cm x 34cm

Provenance: Ex. Christies, 13th February 1990, lot 81