Antiques Roadshow UK Series 25 Episode 10 Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire Part 2

their wages included a gallon of beer a day which helped the early gardeners certainly earned their gallon of ale in the 19th century Nesfield redesigned the grounds creating formal Victorian terraces and later the garden was replanted to reflect the changing moods and colors of the seasons there wasn't an Earl in sight until the coronation honors of William the fourth in 1831 Thomas William Anson was a politically active man at the same time his vast expenses land speculations and love of betting nearly brought down the estate in the Tower of winds Earl number one played illicit games of cards where he managed to lose his frilly shirt to meet his debts Anson had to sacrifice whole collections of ancient sculpture old masters and his London home the fifth Earl and the Queen's second cut this photographer Patrick Litchfield his gallery at Shugborough features photos especially taken for the Queen's Jubilee along with other royal hickeys from portraits to landscapes the Earl's Arboretum over the river sow contains a unique collection of nearly 100 oak trees and that's not the only thing of interest you'll find at the bottom of his garden there's the Rouen actually built to look like a ruin over 250 years ago and now is one in its own right the code stone druid is in remarkably good condition after all these years and very well placed to keep an eye on our experts so let's follow his gaze and join today's Roadshow you know nearly every year we get some very good pieces of fairyland lost of I went on the program but this is to be quite exceptional right some of these pieces are really mind numbing they've had especially this dish do they come through the family no they don't we had very little in the family that were vials there with the Rainbow Bridge was the first piece I ever bought and there was a pet there's a pair of them and I think I paid five or ten pounds for this yes that's a long time ago no no but we're talking course about the nineteen twenties out-weird up no we aren't no I when these things were made when these things were before the First World War but yes I think now Daisy became Jones the designer of all these wonderful fairy land she was my father's eldest sister yeah he was the youngest of the family and my parents met because he came up to visit her and she was living in respectable spinster lodgings which couldn't possibly take in a young soldier he was an army officer hmm so he went to stay with the management instead oh yes so he to the amazement of everybody they clicked she had the reputation of being the coldest icicle in North Staffordshire go please anyway but Daisy of course developed this extraordinary yes and testicle world of fairies and strange creatures they're so magical you've got a dish like this called the ghostly would usually after this these traje woods and creatures in it it's always amazed me that you got French like creatures it's a French fairy story frightening things like this toad of these the ghastly these are corpses are they their insides and even the border I mean you know you expect wonderful incredible creepy crawlies to come yeah I mean there's a kind of it there yes we always feared for the crab crab like lobster claws but he's quite there totally totally frightening up in there oh she had a strange mind you create all this stuff the backs of these pieces are just as beautiful as the frogs I mean this lovely luster poor just luster on this thing isn't it but I do worry about these great ft wires on did you put those no I did not already when I bought it and I've never quite don't don't try yourself they really need cutting by a professional he really knows what they're doing but they are doing some damage to the edges of the pieces so um they should be removed if you do have insurances on it I think you oughta think into it's got to be ten thousand plus and have the wires take it off my jeweler into doing it yes it won't seem a person but get him in sure before he does what about these modes they're very very rokoko in their ornament on there with the sea scrolls and the starless foliage which is but some ways slightly at odds with the kind of rather estranged parquetry decoration over the cabinet itself and parquetry of what what is this timber laburnum do you think I think the top is actually King wood it's got those rather parallel straighter grains which is quite typical of Northern European cabinets of the late 17th century early 18th century okay do you think these are original I think they could well be certainly on Antwerp things you get it very often a combination of gilt metal evany King would and then Foyle back tortoiseshell that's interesting you can particularly see on these bits of torture it's actually got very golden color which is by using a gilt foil that goes on the reverse it brings out of much more the translucency yes much richer you know what's very interesting in in the drawers is the solid hardwood drawers so instead of being made out of oak or pine they're actually beautifully made and indeed this central one has the characteristic hidden secret drawer for all sorts of valuable sadly gone now knows never you know so what is the family history my family's always collected I think it's probably my grandmother I think yes what is it I don't know 70s late 17th century this bit the table is laid somebody century but the real puzzle and the fantastic quirkiness is in the stand I mean it's the first indicator about apart from the contradiction between the mounts and the cabinet is the fact that the cabinet itself which is a table cabinet originally is actually the veneered on all four sides let's have a look at the back to but no you see the back of the cabinet is again beautifully finished with this well the geometric prodigy decoration Mara's color Marvis color I made to be seen in the rounds you could walk around it and admire it from all sorts of different angles now the fantastic stand John Robin salivating over they said on the back you see is not finished at all it was obviously conceived to go against the warheads rather than being is in the middle stylistically this certainly appears to be right in the middle of the 18th century the early flowering of the Gothic Revival in Iran 1750s six years after that was made exact take that exactly and it's a really interesting bit around two perónism so what do we think about a value well it's a very difficult thing to value isn't just because it's so unique and it's a very idiosyncratic piece of furniture which appeals to people who love furniture but I you'd find it almost impossible to replace it just because it's so incredibly rare it says pop this bad fall on top yeah I mean it's it is a mixture of two periods but it's particularly interesting from a history of taste point of view yeah you probably ought to insure it for something around 12,000 pounds well that just surprised me here it is actually French silver and we've got one of the French marks appearing just on the edge mark and all the rubbed and difficult read but so that is one of the French part of that actual pair indeed now what about the other pieces they are all his regimental silver the 66th regiment belt buckle and the most interesting thing I think is the the cup with the even with its handle right it is what's known as a bougie box it's a bougie a bougie it comes on the French for a Campbell so we still have their French inside there'll be a coil of wax as you would get on a wax track that would then extend through that in fact is missing there should be a little flap to go over top so when he was writing his letters dispatchers this sort of thing as an officer he could then melt the wax to seal his letters and wonderful that got his Spurs as well now with these we have got a mark there but I have to say I can't idea it's not an English bar mm-hmm so it's he's obviously been acquiring pieces I did wonder whether it might be Portuguese rain he's a peninsular war and I and I wouldn't be certain on that the the mark that should help us is rather indistinct the maker's mark is showing very clearly but I suspect that they could be Portuguese so as as lost a certain that would spoils of war as his K around acquiring various pieces he prepares to get that in France I suspect that in the Peninsular itself but wonderful to have all this all connected with this most exciting period English history and very much a part of it in a sense I mean the values going to be as a group indeed yeah they're great I'm sure you would never want to miss this one on its air and I would have thought you're lucky up to 1,500 2,000 pounds yes the bougie box that's not in terribly good condition and in good condition it would be 500 pounds but in this condition perhaps 150 200 pounds but again it doesn't really matter because it's partial just fascinating group and the the regimental badge that one the officers badge there that one's going to be 150 200 pounds and the Spurs say about four or five hundred pounds for those that those around those around and love her to have them with the buckles oh that's cool so many of them ended up being damaged because they were being used I mean they were function right so it's actually excited thank you for bringing it up thank you but this is known as accounting of the balls I have to find out how many there are in there there are one two three four five six counting the outer one totally nice there's a whole collection of yours no they belong to my daughter they were getting to like her father they were her grandparents yes property and he gave them to her last year now counting the balls on a small one is easy this is a different matter this is going to take me some time this is the camera I made in 1960 thirty five-millimeter FL and it's worth according to this price guide a hundred to one hundred and fifty US dollars but it isn't in brilliant condition and if you would probably get about four three four five six seven eight 14 15 16 17 18 19 but 19 balls is pretty spectacular isn't it I mean a solid piece of ivory and the way it's done when they have the original solid globe they take drills very fine drills and they drill at certain strategic points into the center of the ball and then they take a slightly wider drill and they drill another hole following the original but not quite so far and then a wider drill a wider drill and so on until they get to the maximum diameter of the holes then you have stepped drillings and those step drillings acts as the guides the chapter then start using a knife to undercut and produce these extraordinary filigree patterns and I'm going to put it together because they do look quite special I mean this one isn't particularly old by Chinese standards they produced these export items from the 18th century onwards pierced balls were very very popular ornaments it sits on there and decorates the table it's spectacular that as an ornamental item today is probably worth somewhere in the region of five to eight hundred pounds not bad for a lot of balls what are these marks here what's happened here well we're not I bought it for I bought it for the year the frame actually we bought it for the frame yes I've bought it for the frame and there was a there was a very very crude picture on there that someone had stepped down and that was how I found this underneath so the picture was actually on top of that as you couldn't see this at all not at all I see can you read that signature it's James McBay yes he was a Scottish painter from between the wars I'd say and he was a water colorist and a print maker who eventually took American citizenship but before that he made one or two prints and here is a really beautiful one that I've never seen before now it's an etching with drypoint and it gives this lovely feathery line this this wonderful contrast of dark and light I think it's rather a moving thing I've never seen it before I think it's probably worth about 600 pounds it's a nice surprise very very since you must have an enormous house takes up nearly all the hall well I should think you tell you well does tell me where did it come from had it come into your family I remembered at my grandfather's house in stoke-on-trent and then my mother inherited it and then we've had it since then right it's great fun I like to think that this is daddy bear this is mummy bear and there we've got that's very fair and why not have Goldilocks wandering around because it's pure Hollywood rear yeah I mean practically you can hang a lot of coats and hats and shove your umbrellas in but there was a time I think when every tea shop he in the land had some sort of Black Forest carved stick stand with bears in it to go with the thorn a carved bent wood tea room furniture and all the rest of it it was very much a furnishing factor for a period of time around about 1900 and I would guess this probably dates from about 1880 to 1900 yeah it's actually made of lime wood so as far as one can tell there's a break here yeah and this lower part was one enormous chunk of lime and it's all been carved out of the solid which is remarkable yeah so daddy bear and mummy bear and this whole rocky plinth plastered in leaf edge and grasses all out of one lump of wood and then the upper um strand here with branches and this framed mirror and baby bear on the top out of another single piece of lime so it's it's a tour de force of of the wood carvers art actually and very often you see black forest small souvenir boxes but this has to be one of the biggest stick stands ever I reckon their expressions are good aren't they turned up nose these whoops thank you very much and really quite sought-after it's a sort of thing that a decorator would go mad for you can see it in some Hollywood mansion house right now I mean it we make quite a lot of money at auction I suppose probably on a good day you'd get between six and eight thousand pound why would I wouldn't part with it for anything now we won't expect you to take it home we'll take it home for you so you collected them as calden I mean to me they're much more interesting because fine their examples are called but what is important to me is the image on them because if we look at these images in detail here is a picture which clearly shows Queen Victoria that is her granddaughter princess Louise and this is a photographic image printed onto the porcelain now this was done in the 1890s and the whole process of printing on photography was then in its infancy experiments were being made in Germany in France and of course in various places in Britain to find a way of fixing the photographic image onto a porcelain plate now fixing it on was not a problem the problem was in the firing because of course a high temperature of the firing damaged the photographic image and so you needed to develop a way of fixing with it a photograph onto the plate which could survive the firing lots of experiments that went on and one of the many figures involved was a man called Thomas Stanway who worked at cold and at that time I think he was a decorator yes and the background to these is that these are actually photographs taken by Princess Leia Queen Alexandra that's right isn't it yes yes so did you discover that by chance yes it was actually we have seen the fates and we show them that this reference in the library yes from the Christian Life magazine and we then went to antique fair one such afternoon yes and found it found those two plates there so you've walked two and then two more yes completely unconnected yes those two first about 1980 you know those two in about 1992 auction and local auction no so in the other one I mean here we've got we actually see there is Princess Alexandra there are other members the royal family I also like very much this very very moody seascape with the boat coming it's nightly trip reminiscent of the photograph taken in Whitby by Sutcliffe another pioneer fattah ya so we're dealing with two things we're dealing with a technology which is printing on porcelain photographically we're also dealing with Princess Alexandra has quite a famous amateur photographer yes she decided in a very curious way that what she wanted was a tea set with images from her photographs printed on it and she commissioned that the Commission went to called and to make this tea set and that tea set exists in the Royal Collection it's quite a well-known object and there's a big tea set with 24 cups and saucers and so on yes what these seem to be which is what makes them remarkable are trials for that service yeah now what we don't know of course is how many trials of the world you've found for quite by Charles yes these may be the only four that exist outside that actual service yes pricing these is in a sense impossible there's no market established price to go by such things have never been sold the only thing known as the famous royalty set yeah so where do we go well no what they are and knowing the great increasing market for early photography putting on the factor the rarity of these pieces plus the royal connections I'm going to say 500 pounds of plate you think that's alright very good I can't wait any longer I must show you this week's archive clips remember we're inviting you to choose the items we'll use in the last program of the series to celebrate our 25 years on the road now the phrase that comes to mind this week is small but perfectly formed because we're in the wonderful world of the miniature guns come in all shapes and sizes but rarely do they ever come as small as this little gentleman here it's I think a one six or perhaps even a 1/7 scale fully working replica of pinfire revolver made in Bal 1870 1880 there are people who collect these and it really makes me wish that I had a watch tuned to pull it up these are most unusual things I think I've ever seen made of wood largely because of the detail on them and the fact that we've got well a few here on the table and then quite a lot more I understand first of all on the screen behind us then you've got some more at home and I think possibly my grandfather my father collected there were both collectors so they've got anything and ever they didn't actually make them no and where did they collect you from that I can't tell you well my father bought it probably about 1950 at the sale of a doctor citric doctor citric was the doctor at badminton for the Duke of basically renowned name and he was a mad keen fisherman and he asked hardest to make that for him and obviously don't need to tell you but Hardy's are really the two rolls-royce of fishing tackle generally and I think dr. Sedgwick was clearly a very lucky man to get this made because by all accounts Hardy's virtually never made miniature rods they these are extremely unused I said when a colleague told me he'd found a little Bureau for less than less than three feet wide I was very surprised and delighted but I didn't imagine it would be quite this small what a wonderful little thing you know in 25 years I have not seen a better example of a miniature piece of furniture no have you had it a long time I've had it about six or seven years it was given to me as a present it's got connections with an ex-girlfriend who I'm thoroughly gone into the history of it - well we were going to that about so to register your vote ring Oh eight seven hundred one hundred eight seven oh and when you hear the prompt press one two three or four on your telephone keypad depending on your choice alternatively you can see the clips again in full on our website and vote online at www.ppsd.com forward slash and tips next time for more items to choose from and now back to our experts we have them in all sizes without removing them taking the mount off and taking them off the back to see you others and impressed wedgewood mark on the back it's impossible to be categorical at it but both in terms of the very high quality and the coloring and the design they are almost certainly Wedgwood Clark's which have been put on this piece of furniture which was constructed by a very very good firm using mahogany within all of the carcass in the sort of 1860s 1870s it's interesting having this very open mirrored compartment in the top because to me it almost feels as though you you ought to have a statue or something which could then be seen on all sides and it's got this beautiful very exotic wood it has a very light curring coloring rather like bird's-eye maple but it's actually a hard word called Amboyna with very very tight grain and it's something which you see particularly on Anglo Indian furniture from the early 9th century which then was exported from India to England and used a lot by firms like Henry lamb of Manchester wearing a Giller and I was tantalized because I was hoping that when we opened that secretary draw here that I was going to see a signature along the top of this draw because that's where very good quality Victorian furniture is is sign yeah sadly it's anonymous in spite of the incredible quality but I see it's obviously starting to smile a little bit is the central heating it's a wicked thing is there because it's just starting to separate just a little bit and it can be dealt with but it's something that you might want to have looked at before it it goes beyond retrieval but they can cut in element to the underside to then straight it because then the draw will close very safely but it's the most beautiful quality at one stage whether it was French you see well that's exactly it's inspired by louis xvi Lewis says furniture with these fluted legs yes and actually in the 1780s there were some very good bits of French furniture made particularly by Vice viola who was a great maker who was the first person to use Wedgwood Clark's on French furniture he imported by de Guerre but this is definitely a 19th century form and it's inspired by the prototypes of an earlier date yes well I think you want to make sure that it is properly insured and I would think a figure of somewhere around seven seven and a half thousand pounds yes is the right level well in the early 60s my mother worked at a local theater and a lot of these groups went around on one-night stands up theater was one of the venues I mean I'm only 12 13 years old at the time but my mum got me a job on the stage just walking across with the curtains and in the microphone back and that's basically at uh observers there when a lot of these are just up and coming start your groups at the time we the coolest kid in school you could say that yeah it's it's memories as well you know I mean all over brought them for an ideal evaluation I've never never part with them there's still the music you really love yeah particularly cream and Jimi Hendrix in particular you've got some fantastic programs here The Beatles Roy Orbison you've got the signatures there did you go and talk to John yeah very briefly good conversation but the fact that you've got signed fair and all said that I mean that's lovely because that's such a wonderful image as well so something like that with the signatures I'd say between 250 to 350 pounds for that cuz that's lovely also your autograph books I mean you've got everyone in here you talked about cream didn't you we've got we've got cream and the who Oh everybody but with some of the ones you've got here like your cream one I mean that's going to be sort of 300 quid for that similarly with the who you know 300 quid but this is inscribed to it well after that particular concert I was talking to Hendrix on stage who actually ages my mom came rushing down the theater with this photograph and the obviously saw her and said you know is this your mom and so yeah you signed it for her actually and it's the best of love happiness and peace of mind I wish for you love Jimi Hendrix and that it's going to be at least you know at least fifteen hundred pounds and you know fifteen hundred plus and if you take all of your things you know it is worth thousands of pounds and it's a wonderful little bit of history well Mike what about that well who would have a collection of these I think ones enough nice object isn't it it is beautiful shape wonderful blades about 1918 probably from something like a B to C never been used no sign of anywhere at all so probably bought army surplus after first world war so it was a war plane I was for a first world war scout reconnaissance plane but I would imagine this was just bought from one of the vast clearance sales after the war as an ornament what you do with an old propeller does it have any value oh yes I mean in collector terms it's in such good condition you wouldn't want it for the plane but you were such a collector for an ornamental purposes would pay 300 400 pounds for something like this what's a thing of beauty there he goes got him and he says on the back of his bell ringing away though made in Japan so these are going to be about the Second World War period these wouldn't toy is given to all and the father when he was on his travels with babies local football team Derby County what about value I suspect between 70 and 100 ballots apiece at auction I'd love to see how these to work would you like to end yours up and I'll try this one and see if we can get them doing their thing while looking very closely this doesn't look like human hair at all it looks as though it could be feather there's a tiny tiny tiny bits coming off I think those are feathers it's a stunning little portrait of a gentleman dating what rond 1818 teen he's not a family member get out and have a look at it in special occasions and when I was 21 can you I liked it so much he let me have it so and I do that with my children now now I would expect that to be a locket in the back but there isn't I mean that that is where you would perhaps put you know a locket of the beloved's hair but it is a miniature portrait in wax stained blue wax and then they the shirt appears to be in waxed linen maybe paper details in the cravat and then the portrait itself is just colored wax it's incredibly lifelike isn't it it's just like the the wax works at Madame Tussaud on I'm sure there was a sort of inspiration at the end of the 18th century for people working in colored wax likenesses he shifted he was once more central to this and he dropped him I - you were talking about three years ago and he didn't in from attending to get think'st glorious little thing probably done in London early 19th century despite the damage I suppose he still worth somewhere in the region of four to six hundred pounds I had it for me seventh wedding anniversary I've been now married 40 years 33 years isn't that much I don't really know the value because it was a presence wasn't my husband bought it for an attack from an antique shop and if they were selling it on behalf of a lady but I don't know who well it's fantastic really because jewelry buying husband's are very very rare indeed you yes and so you want to keep a very firm grasp on here as well as the necklace or try and keep folks back with you that's wonderful well I mean it isn't Edwardian necklace it dates from about 1900 and it's a fantastic display of Australian opals and the thing about opals is that there are sort of mineralogical jelly they're not a sort of crystalline gemstone in the same way that rubies and sapphires and diamonds are and what's happening within it and the sun shining on it right now is that the light is refracted in planes within this mineralogical jelly and it's utterly unique the opals are set in gold because they're colored stones the diamonds are mounted in platinum and what we call meal grass setting thousand grain settings around the the tiny diamonds which just give very little return of light and evening and I think in a way this is a hanger from something Victorian in Victorian world there was a deep fascination with the natural world and the study of gemstones is bought to you know everybody's focused by John Ruskin and many many others of course everybody sees it as a necklace quite properly here and it's very slinky malinki it works beautifully on the neck and every movement of the wearer it's articulated dress I bet it is and in a way it's this kind of you know sort of casual way in which it moves is is what's lacking a lot in modern jewelry today but it's even more impressive than that because lying on the table here we've Secours piece of metal tell me what that is and that's for tiara for a tiara tiara frame don't you I'm gonna give it a go one day don't you the next big wedding anniversary and fence and we have to make the necklace suing Judas together to wear it for the wedding when did she do that she wouldn't just necklace it's not much to ask for and it's it's upside down like that and many necklaces do make tiaras when they're put up on these base metal frames people find them very worrying because they're not made of of gold and they don't think that they're important part is they put it definitely it would and it's held in the front here on this sort of two prong defect in the middle and then that the tension is maintained with these screws at the end it probably needs a little bit of an adjustment but certainly it would anyway let's think about it financially everybody's lusting after it looking at no well it is in extraordinarily difficult to value because there is aspects of it that are unfashionable all the girls behind just wouldn't believe that because they all want it really badly but but but curious enough in the jewelry world opals have lost their fascination to a degree so it's a rollercoaster ride a value up to a point I still think we're right at the top of the roller coaster mind you and I I don't think it would be very easy to buy this necklace for any less than about five or six thousand pounds maybe even more today god got a lot lit that's good that's good well the price of good man's above opal suddenly thank you the only thing I know about it is that a friend of ours about 30 years ago was using it as a doorstop I don't know my husband saw it and he said you shouldn't be using that and then he said well you take it away now do you know what it's called and it's cream sure that's right yes carved tasks teeth fall very broadly into that category what I've never seen before is something which is so bizarre is I'm here we've got a complete sort of traditional view of cannibal life that's right I mean the first select your big Tim cut the head off then you cut him into smaller pieces there's the legs this rather gruesome symbol of the crossed hands which a person's like a celebration would in fact than you realize it isn't and then finally we have the cooking pot with the leg hanging out or about to be poked in whatever it's an extraordinary thing what do you think about it at home well I don't actually like what's on there but it's such an unusual item that my husband thinks it's wonderful well I think it's wonderful it's clearly 19th century you know it belongs to that period whether it was a rather bizarre tourist piece which I suspect we'll never know but certainly it's the Africans in a sense sending themselves up this is what the Europeans think we do so we'll do it yes so in terms of value a very untypical piece of 'scrimish or very incorrect great fun and I would say therefore 500 pounds thank you very much a glass cup which has been handed down ah maybe this will be more interesting than goblet that's a monobrow news plate there for Birmingham Mail Thursday maybe 18 8 1933 earlier than the newspaper that's that's fantastic what's the story on this and my mother had it given to her well quite a number of years ago and it's been in the bottom of a wardrobe until I came to clean their house and right that was 20 odd years ago really well it's really a sort of giant Rama Rama is a corruption of the German word Roma which is the large drinking glass nothing to do with running the Rama was used for drinking water I mean they actually kind of half this size in real life or more likely water you see you know you go back to when this dates from the night 1820s water is a dangerous substance I mean you might wash in here once in a while but you don't drink it and that's you're bonkers because you know you take a slug of that you're dead what you dream is small beer which is a very low alcohol ale and it was drunk at the table instead of water and he was drunk by children and they did make large ones like this this is Georgian now what we've got engraved on here is some initials H F Y born March the 8th 1821 Joseph Yeomans and he's got this wonderful wonderful male coach on is a very unusual thing to find well price I think you know would have no difficulty pushing thousand pounds you did a surprise it's a lovely booties class thank you very much well it was originally a wedding present from my great uncle to my grandma she had the choice of five pounds or the picture and in those days you're expected to take the five pounds which took the picture yes and then it spent a long time under her bed which time my dad under her bed what did she keep I don't we showed a lot of wall space yeah and then my father said you know while I keep it under the Bernie said she said well if you like it so much take it and so he he had it and then he died about a year ago and I inherited it yes it's a nice story and did was it ever hung I mean I suppose yeah yeah at home I can't remember it's never been hung Amaya Wow yes that's it do you like it I love it why do you like it detail it's a little bit of the little chap on the bridge and the rivers and the sheep and the colors because the colors are really nice aren't they and the detail as you say is is extraordinary and and I like the light don't you coming off the hill there because well I suppose you two have to call it romantic really it kind of like kind of bursts on it and a silvery way doesn't it and then the light kind of suffuses that River area completely and then the like it's quite silvery at the top and then it gets more and more golden as it comes down into the meadow whether cows are it's very good we'd like that picture nicely well anyway as you can see and as you know it's by Sidney Richard Percy who was a Welshman in fact he came from an enormous family of artists there were scores of them they were called Williams the families he came from and to distinguish himself from them like his brother Boddington he changed his name to he took his wife's maiden name so it's not to be confused with the other Williams's when he was exhibiting in public exhibitions BW leader was also a Williams he was another landscape painter and they did it because otherwise you know they would all do yet another Williams and they'll it'll be no comparison you know he had to paint that quite a rate though because as I understand it he had a a rather expensive wife who looked insisted on keeping a carriage and scores of servants and that they had a big house and it was rather expensive to to maintain so he had to sell a fair rate to pay for that keep a whole show on the road nonetheless he seems to avoid being formulaic more than most English landscape painters at the time it he manages to keep this this this specific light that he has and the talent with his trees I think they're also lovely very transparent it's quite a small one it's like he's capable of pictures on an enormous scale really vast great big academy winners you know with huge frames but this I think is in it's almost more domestic scale has more charm in that way his pictures are sought-after and rightly so I think it's worth 6,000 pounds 6,000 well yes well they say time stands still for no man although does seem to move rather more slowly on the Antiques Roadshow we've really enjoyed our return visit the Shugborough hall the whole estate has a very welcoming atmosphere don't forget by the way that you can see our archive clips on the website and you can vote online there's a lot of interesting information altogether so do dip in meanwhile the caravan moves on until the next time from Staffordshire good bye Rolf Harris celebrates the great painters next on BBC one back for a new series of Rolf on art [Music]

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow UK, Antiques Roadshow Series 25, Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, Michael Aspel

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Length: 42min 24sec (2544 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 30 2018