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  • RE-DISCOVERED DERBY DAY BY WILLIAM POWELL FRITH

    Derby Day by William Powell Frith RA at Christie's. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £505,250.

    Re-discovered at a beach house in New England, Derby Day by William Powell Frith RA (1819-1909) is estimated to make £300,000-500,000 at Christie’s on December 15.  The original first working of the masterpiece by Frith at Tate Britain hung on the walls of an unlocked beach house for the past 50 years. The masterly panorama will lead Christie’s Victorian & British Impressionist Art in London on December 15.

    The sale of 90 paintings and works on paper includes work by artists ranging from the Pre-Raphaelites to the British Impressionists, including Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Cowper, Munnings, Clausen and de Glehn.  It is expected to realize more than £4.5 million.

    UPDATE: The sale brought in £2,940,500. The top lot was Dery Day by William Powell Frith which sold for £505,250, a world record for the artist at auction.

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