King Charles' painting of Balmoral goes up for auction in Edinburgh

King Charles’ painting of Balmoral castle where the Queen spent her final days is set to go up for auction in Edinburgh for £400

• Charles completed the watercolour painting on a Scottish holiday in 2001  
• The residence where Queen Elizabeth passed away on September 8, 2022
• Auctioneers anticipate it could fetch £600 when it goes on sale next week
• King Charles took up painting when he was a student at Gordonstoun School 

A painting by King Charles of Balmoral Castle – where the Queen spent her final days – is expected to fetch up to £600 when it goes up for auction next week. 

The then-Prince of Wales completed the water-coloured portrait in 2001 which depicts the Gothic exterior of the Scottish royal residence.

Nestled away in the Scottish Highlands, Balmoral was where The Queen and Prince Philip chose to spend their summer breaks surrounded by family.

A painting of Balmoral Castle by King Charles III from 2001 is being in Edinburgh on Thursday 20, October

Balmoral Castle is where Queen Elizabeth spent her final days. Pictured on September 6 2022, two days before her death

King Charles took up painting when he was a student at Gordonstoun School. Pictured hosting a reception to celebrate British South Asian communities at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on October 3, 2022

The Royal Family’s Scottish residence was first purchased by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1856 and is where Queen Elizabeth passed away at the age of 96 on September 8, 2022.

After completing the painting of the private family home in 2001, 100 copies were made of King Charles’ artwork.

Auctioneers at Bonhams in Edinburgh are expected to put their copy of the painting  up for sale £400 on October 20 and anticipate it could fetch as much as £600.

According to Eastern Daily Press , King Charles was encouraged to take up painting when he was a student at Gordonstoun School by his art master Robert Waddell.

At the age of 29, Charles had his first exhibition of watercolour paintings at Windsor Castle and famously also painted the Queen Mother’s Scottish residence Castle Mey in 1986. 

Balmoral Castle [pictured on September 20, 2017] was purchased by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1852

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip enjoyed yearly family holidays at their Scottish residence. Pictured with Prince Charles and Princess Anne on January 1, 1953

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, walking on their Balmoral Estate in Scotland, on their Silver Wedding anniversary year, UK, 27th September 1972

Prince Charles sketching in the gardens of Omiya Palace during a break in his official tour of Japan in May 1986

Alongside Charles’ painting, furniture commissioned by Coco Chanel for the Sutherland home of Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, will go under the hammer at auction next week.

The fashion designer famously enjoyed a love affair with Grosvenor – one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time –  in the 1920s.

After finding his home too gloomy, Chanel refurbished the mansion by wallpapering and commissioning new, lighter furniture which features in the Scottish Home sale at Bonhams in Edinburgh.

A limed oak Tuscan table, estimated at between £800 and £1200, was modelled on Sir Robert Lorimer’s designs for furniture at Balmenno Castle, Perthshire, along with a set of limed oak open armchairs, which are expected to fetch between £1500 and £2000.

An original masthead for The Scotsman newspaper is to be auctioned on October 20, 2022

Jacobite twist glass dating back to 1760 will also be auctioned in Edinburgh

 

An antique oak table in the style of Robert Lorimer goes on sale next week

 

These four lined oak chairs were commissioned by the fashion designer Coco Chanel for her lover Hugh Grosvenor’s London home in the 1920’s

In a similar style, a limed oak occasional table will also be going under the auctioneer hammer.

Among the other items going on sale is an original masthead for The Scotsman newspaper, used from the launch in 1817 until 1835.

Other rare pieces of Scottish jewellery and glassware will also go on sale, including a Jacobite twist glass thought to be from around 1760.

The bell bowl is decorated with a six-petalled rose with two buds, one partially open in reference to James VIII of Scotland, the Stuart claimant to the British crown and his two sons, Charles and Henry – all three of whom lived in Continental Europe.

Other items set to be auctioned include the first copy of The Broons annual from 1939 (left) and the Oor Wullie annual from 1939 (right) 

James led the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1715 and was followed by his son, Charles, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, in 1745.

The glass would have been used to toast the ‘King over the water’ and is estimated at between £4,000 and 6,000.

Bonhams senior valuer Hamish Wilson said: ‘Bonhams Scottish Home sale is a wonderful offering of all things Scottish from the fascinating furniture commissioned by Coco Chanel for Rosehall House to Jilli Blackwood’s wonderful Millennium Kilt No 2 Philabeg and everything in between.

‘With its carefully curated mixture of the useful and the decorative, the Scottish Home sale is designed to appeal to everyone.’

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