02-12-2017, 02:57 PM
I thought I would spend a few minutes trawling the internet to see if I could unearth the original sale. No luck with the Austin Seven painting, but Dreweatts of Bristol auctioned off 4 other Eric Bottomley paintings from the Motoring History series - a Leyland lorry, AC Cobra, Trolleybus and Lotus Cortinas - all listed at £80-£100 pounds in their 17 October 2013 catalogue. They all sold for slightly under or over the estimate £84-£108 with costs. It was probably around this time, or a little later, I spotted the Austin Seven painting.