Drambuie’s Edinburgh headquarters and London office in St James’s are being sold off, along with its corporate art collection, which is expected to fetch £3 million to £3.5 million. The latter is being sold by the Edinburgh-based auction house Lyon and Turnbull, whose managing director Nick Curnow describes it as “one of the most important sales of Scottish paintings since the celebrated Honeyman Wemyss Collection was sold in 1979″. The Drambuie collection, assembled by the curator Robin Nicholson over the past 20 years, mainly at auction, includes Scottish art from the 18th century to the post-war period. As so often in sales of art from north of the border, the Scottish Colourists top the price scale, with Samuel John Peploe’s Still Life with Japanese Jar and Roses expected to fetch £100,000 to £150,000, while Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell’s Interior - 30 Regent Terrace is estimated at £60,000 to £80,000. Among the 19th-century paintings to be auctioned will be Alexander Nasmyth’s Cora Lynn, the Falls of Clyde, estimated at £50,000 to £70,000, and Richard Ansdell’s The Deer Forest which should sell for £40,000 to £60,000. The two-day sale on January 26-27 will also include silver, furniture and Wemyss Ware pottery. Nicholson, who is moving to a new job in the art world, is philosophical about the dispersal of the collection he assembled for Drambuie.

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Posted: 09|13|05 at 8:52 am. Filed under: UK News.