Varnishing takes the gleam off ten works for fans of Fidler
THE pleasingly freely painted, if sometimes rather dark, evocations of the English countryside by Wiltshire artist Harry Fidler ((1856-1935) regularly fetch respectable prices in the £1000-5000 range when they come up for auction.
So, when a 50-year-old collection of no fewer than ten Fidler oils was put under the hammer by the D…