Pictures come out of Tower House and into auction room

A COLLECTION of paintings which hung for years in The Tower House in Inverurie are to go on sale in Edinburgh next month.

The 28 works by 19th century Danish artist Niels Simonsen were collected by a Danish businessman who spent numerous Christmas holidays at the house.Now, they are to go on sale at Bonhams in Edinburgh on 16 February.

Professor Simonsen is well known in his native Denmark and Bavaria where he taught for many years. Simonsen specialised in military paintings – some of his large-scale battle works hang in major Danish museums.