Buccaneering spirit

The show covers the many disciplines encompassed in the Society's stock but is dominated by a large, stunning oil painting by Frank Brangwyn (1834-1903), an 1891 work The Buccaneers which was the artist's first major work. It created a sensation when shown at the Paris Salon in 1893, particularly impressing James McNeil Whistler. It is priced here at £185,000.

Whistler himself is represented by two Venice works commissioned by The Fine Art Society and there are also works by Sickert and Peploe.

From the considerable output of Christopher Dresser comes an electroplated silver jug of 1885 and an oak and plated 1880 bowl by Hukin & Heath.

Other designers of the period featured include William de Morgan, with a brilliant red lustre charger and Thomas Jeckyll.