A good mix of traditional and modern pictures drew decent bidding at Mallams’ (20% buyer’s premium) on March 16.
The 523-lot auction attracted plenty of private buyers to central Oxford and was around two-thirds sold, with £115,000 changing hands.
Top lot was an attractive mid-19th century oil by equine artist John Ferneley Junior (1815-62), consigned with a group of fresh-to-the-market pictures from a Cotswold residence. He was the eldest son of the great sporting artist John E Ferneley, whose canvases today can command six-figure sums.