A PAINTING by Bolton artist Thomas Moran could sell for $80,000 when it goes under the hammer in New York.
The painting of Conway Castle, which dates back to 1917, was previously owned privately in Oklahoma.
It will be auctioned by Christie’s at their Rockefeller Plaza sale of “Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture”.
Moran was born in Bolton in 1837, and moved to America with his family, who were Anglo-Irish, when he was seven. He became known as one of the foremost painters of the American West, and died in California in 1926.
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery owns the biggest collection of works by Moran in the country.
The best known is Nearing Camp on the Upper Colorado River, which was saved from having to be sold in 2004 following a campaign to raise £1.3 million.
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