Titled On the bow of the gin palace, this 3ft 1in x 4ft (94cm x 1.23m) oil on canvas by Edwardian painter and aesthete William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881-1941) is guided at £700-1000 at Sworders’ sale in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, on September 11.
The unframed work is signed and dated ‘99.