Antiques in brief

Royal Yacht Squadron escorting Queen Victoria to Cork by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson was bought by a private collector from Cobh for €28,000 at Woodward’s auction.

PAUL HENRY PAINTING

A Connemara Village, by Paul Henry, is, at €70,000-€100,000, the most expensively estimated lot at the James Adam sale of ‘Important Irish Art’, in Dublin, next Wednesday, at 6pm.