bronze statue of General Wolfe which went to a Canadian bidder on the telephone for a staggering £ 46,800 With a total of almost £2million -more than doubling pre sale expectations - Duke’s auction at Wormington Grange was a spectacular success. The huge total was boosted by a world record auction when the top price of £292,500 for the Algernon Newton painting - “ A Dorset landscape “ - originally bought for £420 by the owners great grandmother at the Royal Academy in 1928, came under the hammer. The viewing attracted high society to the Gloucestershire stately home and accord...