Cork artist's painting of Cardinal Wolsey up for auction

The James Adam Country House Collection offers everything from paintings to furniture in a Georgian setting 

Samuel West's painting 'Cardinal Wolsey leaving London after his Disgrace' will be at the Townley Hall sale.

Silver dinner plates from a grand house on Sackville Street, a commode decorated in the neo-classical manner of Angelica Kauffman, a Wyndham family portrait from Adare Manor, an Irish Regency chiffonier almost certainly made in Cork, a very rare Huguenot silver beer mug and even a disgraced cardinal feature at the James Adam spectacular Country House Collection auction next week.

Viewing starts today for this annual auction mostly drawn from country houses in Ireland such as Doneraile, Hamwood and Mount Stewart in the splendid surroundings of Townley Hall, a Georgian country house near Drogheda. The auction will take place over two days, with an online sale next Monday (Oct 14) and a live sale at Adam's at St Stephen's Green, Dublin, on Tuesday.