

Still Life with a Basket of Flowers and Two Parrots on Steps
Oil on canvas, 105 x 80 cm
Signed and dated, 1741
Charles Collins is an artist emerging from obscurity as more paintings have been discovered or re-attributed to him.
Strickland merely quotes Walpole’s reference to him and the Hume Sale but pays little attention to the picture in the
National Gallery. We can now see that he was a decorative artist of ability.
€ 8,000 - 12,000