ELSTOB & ELSTOB AUCTIONEERS - Fine Art, Antiques & Jewellery 29th February & 1st March

ELSTOB & ELSTOB AUCTIONEERS 182 Two Day Sale of Fine Art, Antiques & Jewellery including Fine Wines and Spirits - Saturday 29th February & Sunday 1st March 1082 ENGLISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY), FIGURES BY COTTAGES, indistinctly signed (or initialled) and dated (18)73 lower left, watercolour, framed under glass. 49cm by 39cm £100.00-£150.00 1083 R*** GOSSONI, CHILDREN PLAYING ONTHE BEACH, signed lower right, oil on canvas, framed. 59.5cm by 90.5cm £80.00-£120.00 1084 JOHN FALCONAR SLATER (1857-1937),APRIL INTHE HIGHLANDS, signed lower left, oil on canvas, framed. 75cm by 62cm Note: John Falconer Slater was born at Rye Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Before becoming an artist, he worked as a book-keeper for his father,Thomas, in his corn mill and later lived in South Africa for a period where he ran a store in the diamond fields. £100.00-£150.00 1085 MAUD EARL (1864-1943),“PRUDENCE”, signed and inscribed verso, oil on canvas, unframed. 56cm by 61cm £200.00-£300.00 1086 DAVID COWAN DOBSON (1894-1980), PORTRAIT OF A LADYWEARING A LONG PEARL NECKLACE, signed lower right, oil on canvas. 132cm by 76.5cm Note: David Cowan Dobson (1894-1980) was a leading Scottish portrait artist of his day. Dobson was born in Bradford,Yorkshire, the second son of the Scottish portrait painter Henry John Dobson (1858- 1928). Dobson started his career in Scotland. He was educated at GeorgeWatson’s College in Edinburgh and studied art in Edinburgh, London and Paris. In 1918 he was using his father’s studio at Dalry.Around 1920 he moved to London and from then on he worked and resided mainly in London. Occasionally, he would work in and around Glasgow. He is said to have rented Kenmure Castle, in New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, in the 1930s and 1940s to entertain and paint fashionable sitters. £2,000.00-£3,000.00