One couple’s Victorian ‘clutter’ is expected to make over £1m at auction
telegraph.co.uk?, should comfortably exceed its £5,000 estimate. A ravishing drawing by Simeon Solomon, a gift to the collectors from Faber and Faber director Charles Monteith, illustrates their fondness for the Pre-Raphaelites and should also exceed its £25,000 estimate.Rose and Gallichan were not wealthy, but they were impassioned by Victorian aesthetics, and inspired by the example of Arthur Grogan, a collector who maintained that, in the 1950s and 1960s, he never paid more than £5 for a picture.Period-design gold frames add a lustrous sense of value to what was essentially a low-budget exercise.
But although the pair never bought with investment in mind, occasionally they struck it rich. In 1988, for example, they bought an anonymous watercolour after.
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