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The evening’s top lot was Sophie Anderson's "No Walk Today" (c. 1850), which sold for £1 million (est. £600–800,000).

Sophie Anderson

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Although the 242-lot sale missed its pre-sale estimate of £5 million, a healthy 88 percent of lots were sold, and dealers reported that it was a better result than at other recent Victorian art sales.

Fourteen artist records were set, including for the evening’s top lot, Sophie Anderson's oil No Walk Today from the 1850s, which Scott purchased in 1926. The work, which carried an estimate of £600–800,000, sold for £1 million.

Scott, who died in 1986 at the age of 99, amassed his collection over several decades. London dealer Rupert Maas once described it as “the finest collection of Victorian narrative paintings left in private hands.”