North East artwork is auction highlight in latest Fine Art Auction

Anderson and Garland auctioneers’ recent Christmas Fine Art Auction saw a wide variety of North East interest works of art fetch impressive sums.

Our Newcastle auction house has for 160 years specialised in generating excellent sale results for pieces created by local artists or antiques with a regional significance. The recent Fine Art Auction proved an epic show of interest in artworks from the North East and Northumberland!

 Here’s an overview of the incredible results from our latest auction:

A gorgeous painting of “Sunrise, Warkworth Castle, River Coquet, Northumberland” by the well-known son of local painter Thomas Miles Richardson was sold for a remarkable £5,700. Lot no 705 by Thomas Miles Richardson, jnr was one of the most sought after pieces at this auction.

Lot 817: John Wilson Carmichael, (1799-1868) oil on canvas “Shipping off Tynemouth” which was estimated at a mere £400-£600 ended up in a bidding frenzy that reached £2,500.

Lot 679: “Sunny autumn morning… man with dog” by popular North East artist Norman Stansfield Cornish fetched more than double its estimated value with a final hammer price of £1,600.

A watercolour from another artist who was raised in North Shields, Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy, sold for a whopping £2,000. Lot 761, “Whitby Fish Quay” was only estimated at up to around £450.

Cornish featured again in this high-stake auction with a piece that had previously gone unsold. Lot 709 “Children Playing” which was expected to go for no more than around £2,500 ulitmately fetched £5,400 in the Fine Art Auction.

You can view the full auction results in the Auction Archives.

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