An oil by Victorian landscape painter George Augustus Williams (1814-1901) stars in John Nicholson’s picture sale on June 28 in Haslemere, Surrey.
Summer Showers, Rochester, is a large 2ft 10in x 5ft (86 x 1.52m) beach scene depicting a girl and her dog with a sprawling Rochester in the distance. Signed and dated to 1861, the canvas has passed through London dealers Frost & Reed and is estimated at £6000-8000.