Jewellery, watches and watercolour paintings valued at around £30,000 have been consigned to a Shropshire fine art auction house by a seller.Maryanne Lineker-Mobberley, associate director and jewellery, silver and bijouterie specialist and Abigail Molenaar, paintings and prints specialist, from Halls Fine Art in Shrewsbury collected the valuable consignment from Hereford last week.
The 19th watercolours include works by John Varley , David Cox , James Holland , Alfred William Hunt and William Turner of Oxford. The 43 paintings, which are valued from the low hundreds to £3,000, are mostly of Southern Snowdonia, particularly Cadair Idris, Dolgellau, Barmouth and Harlech and were purchased from prominent London galleries.
“My personal favourite is a watercolour by John Varley painted from the top of Cadair Idris, which is valued at around £2,000.”