Nicolas Robert hits bloom time at £355,000

Right at the top of the price lists for a London sale of a second portion of the library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Earl Fairhaven, was a lot that presented a handsomely bound collection of 15 very fine watercolour on vellum drawings of flowers.

Bearing a high estimate of £200,000 but sold for £355,000 at Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premiu…

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