A painting of a view from the Isle of Man home of an artist has fetched more than a hundred times its expected price – after it was donated to a UK charity shop.
And unnamed woman donated the oil painting to Blackpool’s Samaritans shop, and it was auctioned after being identified as a William Hoggatt.
It was valued at around £40 but eventually sold for £5,100 to the TwentyMan Gallery in Manchester.
Lancastrian-born Hoggatt painted the view from his home here in the Isle of Man during the early part of the 20th Century.
(Pictured: A Hoggatt painting, courtesy of gov.im)
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