An English School painting depicting one of the earliest venues in cricket was knocked down at £14,000 in a Winchester auction.
The 19in x 2ft 3in (49.5 x 69cm) oil on canvas (right) shows a cricket match being played at White Conduit Fields in Islington, one of the earliest recorded venues for the game and the original home of the White Conduit Club, which later became Marylebone Cricket Club.
Cricket was played at this site until 1786, when Thomas Lord found an alternative venue now known as Lord’s Old Ground. It was a further three decades before he opened the present Lord’s Cricket Ground, formerly a duckpond in St John’s Wood, in 1814.