Art: It's winter selling season for Irish paintings 

Des O'Sullivan takes a look at the selection in the frame in the run-up to Christmas

Morning Prayer, Cottage Interior, Co Cork, 1901 by James Brenan at Whyte's.

Collectors of Irish art have an array of choice across all price levels in the run-up to Christmas. The fun gets underway on Tuesday as timed online Irish art sales at Sotheby's and de Veres get underway with artists and sculptors from FE McWilliam, Rowan Gillespie, Roderic O'Conor, Patrick Scott and William Crozier at Sotheby's to Tony O'Malley, John Shinnors, Donald Teskey, Sir John Lavery and Colin Middleton at de Veres.

The selection at de Veres includes a collection of Irish 18th-century landscapes and Irish Georgian tables from a private Cork collection as well as oils by Paul Henry, Jack Yeats, Roderic O'Conor and many eminent artists.