The Fire at Clerkenwell by Andrew McCallum – £5800 at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.
This painting of a fire in north London drew heated bidding when it went under the hammer at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (21% buyer’s premium).
The 3ft x 4ft 4in (91cm x 1.32m) watercolour was painted in 1878 by the British landscapist Andrew McCallum (1821-1902) and depicts a ferocious fire that broke out in Clerkenwell two years earlier, in July 1876.