‘Shipping off Whitby’ by Henry Redmore – £4300 at David Duggleby’s sale in Scarborough.
This typical Victorian oil of boats on choppy seas, titled Shipping off Whitby, signed and dated 1874, provided the highpoint of David Duggleby’s (21% buyer’s premium) sale in Scarborough on March 17. With a provenance to the Omell Galleries of Bury Street in St James’s, it sold at £4300.
Initialled and dated 1879, a 10 x 15in (26 x 37cm) watercolour view of The Harbour and East Cliff Whitby looking towards the Abbey by Mary Weatherill (1834-1913) sold at £1650. Mary was the eldest daughter of Whitby artist George Weatherill and worked in a similar vein.
