TWO OIL paintings of Perthshire could fetch between £18,000 and £27,000 within minutes of each other at an auction.
Knapp Road,Perthshire, by James McIntosh Patrick, is expected to sell for £8,000-£12,000 at Christie’s South Kensington tomorrow and moments earlier, at the same London auction, a Victorian picture entitled A Perthshire Valley, by London artist Alfred de Breanski Sr, could fetch £10,000-£15,000.
De Breanski astutely cashed in on the Victorian enthusiasm for Scottish views.
In the late 1800s it was possible to buy a deBreanski for less than £100 and they now often sell for thousands at London art auctions.
In his Dictionary of Victorian Painters, the late BBC TV Antiques Roadshow expert Christopher Wood says de Breanski “specialised in Welsh and Scottish mountain scenery, especially Highland lochs at sunset”.
The McIntosh Patrick painting is not dated but it is signed twice withan inscription on theback, which says: “Knapp Road on the Tullybaccart to Perth road, Perthshire, Scotland.”
