British and Lincolnshire artists

By William Gregory MRICS, Golding Young and Mawer.

Some 500 lots were offered for sale at the Lincoln Fine Art and affordable picture auction in May. The top price of the day, £4,600, went to an oil painting by Claude Lorraine Ferneley (1822-1891), son of John E Ferneley (1782-1860). The picture shows Mr George Marriott on a bay hunter, taking a fence and raising his top hat – probably hunting with The Quorn, as Billesdon Coplow is detailed in the background. Signed and dated 1844, the picture had been in the vendor’s family since the 19th century.

A harbour scene in a typical impressionist manner by British artist John Anthony Park (1878-1962) sold for £2,200. Born in Preston, Park moved to St Ives in his later teens to study art and went on to the Adadémie Colarossi in Paris. He became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1932.

John Emms (1844-1912) is famous for his paintings of horses and dogs. A 35cm x 45cm oil on canvas study of an Irish wolfhound and terrier by him found a buyer again at £2,200.
Lincolnshire artists featured at the auction: William Logsdail’s 1882 study of figures in the courtyard of

San Gregorio St Della Salute, Venice which featured in the 1994 retrospective exhibition at The Usher Art Gallery sold for £1,200. Peter Brannan (1926-1994), originally from Cleethorpes, was a past president of the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society. A typical East Coast scene by him titled Caravans sold for £300. Finally, Robin Wheeldon, resident of Waddington near Lincoln, is well-known as an artist exhibiting his works at county shows. A country scene titled Harvest found a buyer at £650.

Full details can be found at www.goldingyoung.com

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