This rare and previously unrecorded watercolour by the celebrated Irish Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Frederic William Burton was sold through Timothy Sammons Fine Art Agents at auction for £265,000 (US$424,239), including the Buyer's Premium, a record price for the artist.

The recent identification of this watercolour represents an important addition to the works of the artist. The painting was executed in 1864 and was exhibited at the Old Water-Colour Society in the same year with Burton's masterpiece Hellelil and Hildebrand: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, possibly the most famous of all Irish watercolours.
 

This highly important example of John Michael Wright's late work was sold through Timothy Sammons Fine Art Agents at auction for £332,750 (US$439,202), including the Buyer's Premium, a record price for the artist. It is the earliest known major portrait to show Highland dress.

Lord Mungo Murray was the fifth son of the 2nd Earl of Atholl. He died young, in about 1700, during an attempt to found a Scottish colony in Panama. Nearly all references to him concern his military role in the North of Scotland in the 1680s and 1690s.
 

This remarkable sketch of the young Queen Victoria reviewing her Life Guards sold through Timothy Sammons Fine Art Agents at auction for £553,750 (US$886,498), including the Buyer's Premium.

The picture is not only one of Landseer's most seductive pieces of painting but one of his very few military subjects - an object lesson in how to draw with a brush, conveying the maximum amount of information with the minimum means. It was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1874, in The Works of the late Sir Edward Landseer R.A.