Bobbing up in Cork, the first view of the first yacht club
There was high excitement at the Cork rooms of Joseph Woodward & Sons (15% buyer’s premium) on February 11 when what was thought to be the earliest surviving painted view of Cork harbour fetched what is known to be the highest auction price ever paid for a painting in the city.
The work of the important and influential Dutch expatriate artist William van der Hagen (?-1745), th…