Healthy prices achieved at auction for bird paintings by former director of British Antarctic Survey

                            

Healthy prices were achieved at auction today for two paintings by Richard Maitland Laws (1926-2014), former director of the British Antarctic Survey and an expert on pelagic birds. At the sale conducted by John Taylors of Louth in Lincolnshire, the hammer came down at £200 on his study (above) of a wandering albatross and at £60 on the cattle egrets.