Charles Collins

Henry Rogers Broughton, 2^nd Lord Fairhaven (1900-1973),

by descent to the present owner

Charles Collins was born in Dublin to unknown parentage. At some point he moved to London, whereupon he proceeded to established himself as a specialist animal and still-life painter. He painted both large compositional pictures in oil, and single species portraits in watercolour and bodycolour. A highly gifted artist, he possessed the ability to bring his subjects to life and his eye for detail and sense of colour were remarkable. Examples of his work are held in the British Museum, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Ireland and at McGill University, Montreal.

The present lot and lots xxx and xxx originally formed part of the collection of Henry, 2^nd Lord Fairhaven (1900-1973) and they have remained with his descendants until today. Lord Fairhaven assembled a very extensive collection of botanical and ornithological drawings of the highest quality in his lifetime. On his death in 1973, his executors bequeathed some 4,000 works of this type to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. For other works from this distinguished collection please see Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries sale, lots 142 and 143 (Sotheby's, London, 2 July 2025).