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24* Goff (Colonel Robert Charles, 1837-1922). The Thames, watercolour, showing a busy scene of cargo ships unloading into lighters, with other river vessels, winches, and figures, initialled lower left, 36.5 x 55.5cm (14.5 x 22ins), mounted, framed and glazed Robert Charles Goff was a printmaker and painter who specialised in topographical scenes and was strongly influenced by the work of James McNeill Whistler. Born in Ireland, he became a soldier at the age of eighteen. Having achieved the rank of colonel, he retired from the Coldstream Guards in 1878 to concentrate on painting. He exhibited widely, at the Royal Academy and other major instutions, and he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1887. Goff had homes in London and Brighton, and a large collection of his work is held at Brighton and Hove Museum and Art Gallery. (1) ÂŁ300-400
25* Harrison (D., 19th century). Still life with birds nest and posy of flowers against a mossy bank, 1886, watercolour on laid, heightened with bodycolour, signed and dated lower left, gilt moulded frame, glazed ()
ÂŁ80-120
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