Sunset On the River Oise by Charles-Francois Daubigny – £15,000 at Nesbits.
A Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-78) painting that had been in the same private collection since 1963 topped Nesbits’ (19% buyer’s premium) sale in Portsmouth on May 17.
Sunset On the River Oise, pictured above, a signed undated 14½ x 2ft 1in (37 x 65cm) oil on wooden panel, depicts a lone figure fishing in a punt on the Oise.