Taking art to places: Christie's celebrates 250th anniversary

Love among the Ruins by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) Photo: Christie’s image

The Banqueting House and Holbein Gate, Whitehall, with Equestrian Statue of King Charles I by Giovanni Antonia Canal (1697-1768). Photo: Christie’s image

The Old Horse Guards, London, from St James Park, with numerous ladies and gentlemen and a parade of soldiers by Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768). Photo: Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation

King Charles I by William Dobson. Oil on canvas; 25? x 20 in. (54.5 x 50.8 cm.) Collection of Dr Christopher Moran
Photo: Christie’s image

A pair of George II ormolu three-light candelabra almost certainly designed by James 'Athenian' Stuart and probably supplied by Diederich Nicolaus Anderson; 20 in. (51 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34 cm.) wide; 8 in. (21 cm.) deep (2). Photo: Christie’s image

The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer. Painted in 1851. Photo: Christie’s image

Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Painted in 1877. Photo: Christie’s image

Lake of Lucerne, From the Landing Place at Flüelen, Looking Towards Bauen and Tell's Chapel, Switzerland by Joseph Mallord William Turner. Watercolour over pencil with scratching out and gum arabic, in original frame; 26 x 39 in. (66 x 100 cm.) Photo: Christie’s image