A 19th century bronze reduction of Aeneas’s flight from Troy after Pierre Le Pautre – £15,000 at Dreweatts.
The first stand-alone British and European sculpture sale to be held by Dreweatts (24% buyer’s premium) was a solid-enough affair to justify department head Cristian Beadman’s belief that there is an exploitable gap in the market.
“In recent years this specialist area has been neglected by many of the international and regional auction houses, with items getting lost in multi-discipline auctions and therefore not receiving the full focus that this wide-ranging category deserves,” he said after the June 28 sale at Donnington Priory.