Painting could fetch £150,000

A VICTORIAN view of Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street is expected to reach up to £150,000 when the painting goes to auction on August 20.

The huge canvas, which measures more than 5ft high, was painted in the early 1860s by Samuel Bough who settled in Scotland after a career as a theatre scene painter.

His friend, Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote admiringly in his obituary of the artist, "a painting by Bough was an act of dashing conduct like a capture of a fort in war".

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