1. The Palazzi Manoleddo-Ferro, Contarini-Fasan and Venier-Contarini on The Grand Canal, Venice by Richard Parkes Bonington sold for $6.2m (£4.5m) – an auction record for the artist – at Sotheby’s sale of pictures from art dealer Richard Feigen.
2. View of Lerici by Bonington featuring his friend and patron Baron Charles Rivet in the bottom left – $2.2m (£1.6m).