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Senior International Specialist, 19th Century European Paintings

Claude Piening 

Senior Director, Senior Specialist

Tessa  Kostrzewa

Senior Director 

Simon Toll

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Emma Gordon

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Our summer sale encompasses art from Britain and mainland Europe, demonstrating the wide-ranging fascinations of nineteenth and twentieth century artists, from still-life to portraiture, the depiction of animals and landscapes to romantic or realistic depictions of everyday life. Highlights include masterworks by European artists Józef Chełmoński, Adolph Menzel, Joseph Anton Koch, Michael Ancher, Joaquín Sorolla, Isaac Israels and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. There are also important and interesting British works by Arthur Hughes, James Herbert Draper, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Sir Edward John Poynter.

European & British Paintings Day Auction