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This pair of finely executed oils by Georges Croegeart (1848-1923) would have been bid to £10,000 or more twenty years ago. Fashion has moved away from this type of art but shoots of recovery for such quality are now showing. Croegeart was a Belgian academic painter who spent most of...
Henry Smith was a renown collector of Brighton prints and related historical works. He contributed to the essential reference book Images of Brighton by John and Jill Ford and was always keen to add new discoveries, publishing articles about them in Brighton historical society magazines. Local specialist booksellers in possession...
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September will see offerings of works by popular local artists Frank Wootton and Harold Mockford. Each artist had a very different interpretation of the local Sussex landscape and collectors are passionate about one or other, rarely both! 70159-1_1.JPG Frank Wootton, Alfristion. Estimate: £1,500-£2,000 70190-1_1.JPG Harold Mockford, Glyndebourne from the wood...
All sales to be held at North Street Saleroom from January 2017 As part of our ongoing strategy to improve customer service and operational efficiency, we will be holding all auctions at our North Street salerooms from January 2017. These will include our popular weekly sales and also the regular...
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Sir John Hill (1714-1775) One of the highlights in the book section of our Spring 2017 Book section, will be a handsomely bound edition of Dr. John Hill’s - British Herbal. Published in London in 1756 , this fine copy contains 75 hand coloured plates of British plants and trees,...
GORRINGE'S FIRST WEEKLY SALE IN NORTH STREET LEWES - MONDAY 9TH JANUARY 2017 Our inaugural weekly sale at our Galleries in North Street Lewes, includes a private collection of ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS Some 57 works, include illustrations by some of the very best artists, including Arthur Rackham, Edward Detmold, William...
Gorringes inaugural Spring auction will include a rare Anglo-Japanese ebonised mahogany cabinet designed by the important architect and designer Edward William Godwin (1833-1886). Godwin’s influence on modern furniture design should not be under-estimated. He sought to design furniture which was functional and appropriate to modern living, and experimented with modular...
R106-1.JPG Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812) Ink and watercolour ‘Margate Jetty, The arrival of the Hoy’ This watercolour is one of six original works by Philip James de Loutherbourg showing facets of daily life in Margate and the nearby resorts of Ramsgate, Brighton, and Worthing, reproduced in aquatint by J...
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