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ART dating from the 15th Century to modern pieces a decade old were all part of a recent auction at Crewkerne. This great span was reflected in the range of styles and subjects on offer at the Lawrence’s sale - and some staggering sale prices were achieved. Among them was a wooded landscape scene in watercolour by John Middleton, who died in 1856 at the age of just 29, which sold for £6,250 (lot 1322), and two watercolours of Drury Lane in London and High Street in Salisbury by Louis Rayner, which made £11,250 (lots 1335, 1336). Meanwhile, three watercolours by Sir William Russell Flint totalled £25,000, led by the £10,000 paid for `Nameless Flowers, Tripoli` (lot 1527).
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As the nineteenth century neared its end, so too did the greatest British life of all. Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, just after her seventy-eighth birthday. Few could recall Britain before Victoria, so epic had been her reign. She had emerged from her deep unpopularity of the 1870s and early 1880s to become the sentimental incarnation not just of the British nineteenth century, when it had finally achieved greatness as the world’s leading power, but of the whole British past.
A great pageant was set for June 22, when the Queen would make a progress to St. Paul’s Cathedral. A committee chaired by the Prince of Wales and including Regy Brett, the future Lord Esher whose instinct for the pompous was as fine as his organizational skills had been planning the event in meticulous detail since March. Brett was charged with arranging an opera gala (which the Queen would not attend); for her carriage to stop on the procession so a child could be prese
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