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1. Escape to the Country
Estimate £2,000-£3,000 Sold £7,500
The successful British artist Helen Allingham (1848-1926) began to paint country cottages in the early 1880s, after moving to the hamlet of Sandhills in Surrey with her husband, poet William Allingham. In 1886, London’s Fine Art Society mounted an exhibition of her work entitled ‘Surrey Cottages’, which chimed with art lovers who
