A TWO hundred-year-old painting of the village of Bevere, Worcestershire, will be up for sale at Sotheby's next week.
The watercolour, entitled The Malvern Hills, is expected to fetch up to £1,500 when it is auctioned on Wednesday, March 19.
The painting, which is 10in by 16in, is the work of Welsh artist Moses Griffith, who lived from 1714 until 1819.
Despite his humble beginnings - he was born into a poor Caernarvonshire family - examples of Griffith's work now hang in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Library of Wales.
He was self-taught and his work has been likened to that of Paul Sandby, the
so-called "father of modern watercolour".
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