Artist's Pounds125 Painting Could Fetch Pounds30,000 ; Two Inshore Fishermen Haul Nets Into Their Rowing Boat in the Shadow of St Anthony's Lighthouse and the Treacherous Manacles Rocks Off Falmouth, Cornwall, in This Late Victorian Scene by the Celebrated Marine Artist, Charles Napier Hemy.

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Two inshore fishermen haul nets into their rowing boat in the shadow of St Anthony's Lighthouse and the treacherous Manacles Rocks off Falmouth, Cornwall, in this late Victorian scene by the celebrated marine artist, Charles Napier Hemy.

Now the evocative oil painting, which Hemy sold immediately for pounds125, is back on the auction market after 118 years - and is expected to fetch around pounds30,000 when it goes under the hammer at Bonhams in London on September 16.

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Artist's Pounds125 Painting Could Fetch Pounds30,000 ; Two Inshore Fishermen Haul Nets Into Their Rowing Boat in the Shadow of St Anthony's Lighthouse and the Treacherous Manacles Rocks Off Falmouth, Cornwall, in This Late Victorian Scene by the Celebrated Marine Artist, Charles Napier Hemy.

Hemy, who settled in Falmouth in 1881 and remained there until his death in 1917, frequentl...

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