Coleridge auction may raise a million pounds
Published October 24th, 2006
An auction of the contents of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Devon family home is expected to raise more than £1m.
Auctioneer Sotheby’s say the sale at The Chanter’s House in Ottery St Mary where Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived, has aroused international interest.
Director of house sales, Harry Dalmeny, said potential bidders from the United States and Turkey were among 1,300 people who had viewed the 500 lots.
The sale includes two undiscovered water paintings by John Constable.
Other artworks in the auction include a painting by Joseph Severn which shows Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as well as rare portraits of William Wordsworth and Coleridge himself.
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