A COLLECTION of art due to be auctioned at Sotheby's is to go on display first at Kelmarsh Hall next week.
In November this year an exceptional array of British pictures - that incorporates Victorian and 20th Century British Art - will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London with a low estimate of £5 million.
The extraordinary collection is the culm
ination of a lifetime of collecting by Sir David and Lady Scott (aka Valerie Finnis), whose home was the Dower House at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, and who were much-loved and celebrated figures in the British gardening world.
Highlights from the collection will be exhibited at Kelmarsh Hall on Wednesday (July 2) and Thursday, launching a worldwide tour that will see the works travel to the Far East, Australia and the US, before the one-off auction in London later this year.
Highlights of the touring exhibition include:
* Sophie Anderson's No Walk Today, estimated at £600,000-800,000
* Sophie Sir John Everett Millais' and Rebecca Solomon's Christ in the House of His Parents, estimated at £400,000-600,000
* Sophie John Anster Fitzgerald's The Stuff that Dreams are Made of, estimated at £400,000-600,000
* Sophie John Callcott Horsley's Showing a Preference, estimated at £200,000-300,000
Proceeds from the auction will go to the Finnis Scott Foundation, a foundation set up under the Will of Lady Scott to benefit charitable causes in both the art and horticultural worlds.
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