Victorian oil painting outdoes antiques valuation to sell for £185k
It was previously valued at between £100,000 and £150,000.
A Victorian oil painting has made more than its antiques valuation to sell for £185,000.
The item - which a Northumberland couple in their 70s paid less than £100 for 50 years ago - had a price guide of between £100,000 and £150,000.
The piece - a landscape of Salt house Dock in Liverpool, created by Leeds-born artist John Atkinson Grimshaw in 1892 - went under the hammer at the Alnwick auction room of Jim Rail ton yesterday (October 17th).
Mr Rail ton described it as a picture of "quality", adding: "Such paintings rarely come onto the market and this one literally attracted worldwide interest. The atmosphere in the saleroom was electric."
The couple had previously purchased it from a dealer in London's Burlington Arcade.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that a horse painting by artist George Stubbs had an antiques valuation of between £10 million and £15 million placed on it.
Posted by John Fol-well