P.F.Windibank
Fine Art and Antique Auctioneers and Valuers since 1945

Full auction catalogues are displayed on this website one week before each auction, until this time previous auctions can be browsed.

For details about our auctions including the dates of forthcoming auctions see our auction details:

Auction details

Placing bids online
-how it works

You are able to search or browse the Auction catalogue and place a bid on an item of your choice.

At the auction this bid will be placed on your behalf and you will be contacted with the results shortly after the close of the auction.

Your bid will be executed as cheaply as is permitted by the other bids or reserves.

To the auction

Auctions comprise of:

Antique & Reproduction Furniture
Antique Porcelain
Glassware
Oil paintings, Watercolours & Prints
Silver & Plated items
Jewellery
Carpets & Rugs
Books
Miscellanea
Copper & Brass items
Clocks, Watches & Barometers
Collectors Items
Objets D'Art

Find out more about the items we have auctioned in the past:

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Watercolour Paintings

In the beginning of it's use, watercolour paintings made by artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often used light washes of watercolour to enliven their drawings.

In England and France, its practitioners perfected a technique of using the underlying white of the paper to provide highlights to transparent washes of colour, producing effects of luminosity and freshness that was unattainable with oil paint.

Varied styles and techniques of Watercolour paintings in our past auctions include:

• Drawing,Gouache
• Pastel
• Topographical
• Wash
• Watercolour