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06 Sept 2025

James Bond, an RAF hero and equine legend memorabilia linked at local auction!

Bring a piece of history back to Kilkenny!

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The dining room of Tullamaine features a large collection of art, including a large oil on canvas in a good gilt frame of The Bailey Lighthouse off Howth by Stephen Catterson Smith. Daniel Egan framing label and other Label verso states 'Bought at the sale of the late Canon Harris 1914'. 71 x 112cm approx. Lot 137. Estimate €1000-1500.

The art collection also includes an oil of jockey Pat Eddery by Irish equestrian artist Peter Curling.

Peter Curling is well known in Tullamaine where there are three large watercolours of the Tipperary Hunt on the walls, along with an oil on canvas of Pat Eddery. Lot 16. Estimate €500-800.

Peter Curling watercolours. Est between €2500 - 5000

 

There is a collection of signed prints by nineteenth century British equine and military artist Lionel Edwards. Including the highlight; ‘Watercolour of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes Morning Exercise May 1966’. Lot 403. Estimate €400-600.

The dining room also featured a large collection of Snaffles prints, seen in lots 113 to 130. Estimates ranging from €200-600 each.

Snaffles, otherwise known as nineteenth century British artist Charles Johnson Payne, he was famous for his humorous depictions of equine scenes from horse racing to polo. Clearly Tullamaine stud is the perfect showroom for these prints.

Two oils attributed to nineteenth century artist JF Herring including lots 59, 66 and 221

Attributed to JF Herring are the pair of oils on canvas of horses in a paddock.

(Signed lower left.)30 x 56cm approx. Lot 66. Estimate €1200-1800.

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