The £33,000 Doge of Dorking
A pair of 19th century Venetian views by Italian artist Francesco Zanin proved to be the high point of a Silver Jubilee auction held by Ewbank auctioneers of Surrey on September 20 and provided their owner, a local Dorking family, with an unexpected financial bonus when they sold for multiples of their original estimates.
The two oils on canvas were typical of the artist's oeuvre: Grand Canal scenes conceived in the trad…