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Auction result
Robert Burns on horseback and the fiddler Niel Gow taking refreshment outside a cottage
William Stewart Watson (British, 1800–1870)
£1,600 hammer
≈ $2,145≈ €1,846
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 79 x 110cm; framed 116.5 x 147cm
- Auction house
- Sworders
- Sale
- Old Master, British and European Art (1294)
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Location
- Stansted Mountfitchet, United Kingdom
- Lot
- 168
- Estimate
- £600 – £800 (≈ $804 – $1,073) (≈ €692 – €923)
- Source
- Auction house sworder.co.uk ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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