Back among provincial beauties...
Victorian painter Sophie Anderson (1823-1903), who specialised in heart-warming female figure studies, appears rather infrequently on the market, but a Hampshire religious institution furnished the Lewes branch of Gorringe’s (15% buyer’s premium) with two good quality, signed half-length female subjects in untouched condition for their June 12 picture sale.
One, a 21 x 17in (53 x 43cm) canvas of a young girl holding a basket of jasmine blossom, attracted £…