Samuel Pepys Cockerell collection to be offered for sale
The Arch of Titus at Rome looking towards the capital (lot 56) by Frederick Lee Bridell (1831-1863). Estimate £20,000-£30,000.
LONDON
.-Dreweatts will present a group of works directly from the family of the British artist Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844-1921). The works are coming to auction for the first time since leaving the artist s family collection and will be offered in Dreweatts upcoming Old Master, British and European Art sale on May 27, 2021.
The collection is led by a stunning portrait of Cockerell, by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) one of the leading portrait and Symbolist painters of the late 19th Century, known as `Englands Michelangelo.