{"id":153262,"date":"2025-09-19T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:01:14","slug":"terance-james-bonds-wildlife-paintings-sell-for-21000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153262\/","title":{"rendered":"Terance James Bond&#8217;s wildlife paintings sell for \u00a321,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758159731_861_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 iMuqLZ hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d0e57700-93dd-11f0-abfc-670aca6e6d7c.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Cheffins A painting of a bald eagle. It has a yellow beak, white head and its body is made up of mainly brown feathers with some white feathers toward its tail.\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 fHZDyi\"\/>Cheffins<\/p>\n<p>Bond&#8217;s Bald Eagle painting sold for \u00a32,800 which was above estimates<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A private collection of paintings by one of the UK&#8217;s most renowned wildlife artists has sold for \u00a321,190 at auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Terance James Bond, who was from Suffolk, was particularly known for his detailed and lifelike illustrations of birds. He died in 2023 at the age of 79.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A collection of his works, belonging to a family in Bedfordshire and built up over 40 years, was auctioned off by Cheffins, based in Cambridge, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Patricia Cross, associate at Cheffins, said &#8220;every piece sold well above&#8221; pre-sale estimates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The collection was owned by Mr and Mrs Robert Graves, who met Bond during a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) charity event in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Over the years, they purchased many of his paintings, but as they prepared to downsize, they auctioned their collection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A highlight of the collection was a piece depicting a bald eagle in a snow-covered landscape, which sold for \u00a32,800 against an estimate of \u00a3500 to \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Another study of a great grey owl in the snow sold for \u00a32,600, while a picture of a robin sold for \u00a31,100.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758159731_861_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 iMuqLZ hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/afe9e050-8275-11f0-9816-2d21cdb3c36a.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cheffins A Great Grey owl is painted sitting in a tree that has lost its leaves during the autumn. The owl has a large head, small eyes and has feathers that are a light brown colour with some darker and lighter spots. \" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 fHZDyi\"\/>Cheffins<\/p>\n<p>The Great Grey owl painting fetched \u00a32,600 in the auction <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;We were delighted with the success of the Terance James Bond collection, which included three pictures breaking the artist&#8217;s record at auction,&#8221; Ms Cross said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;The strong prices achieved today are a testament to Bond&#8217;s talent and popularity amongst collectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Bond was a self-taught painter, born in 1946, and he grew up on a farm near Sudbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He later went on to live at Little Paddock in Wickerstreet Green, Kersey, near Hadleigh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Bond&#8217;s own garden provided inspiration, which was a haven for wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Ms Cross added that the auction included many Suffolk-based art collectors as well as buyers from across the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheffins Bond&#8217;s Bald Eagle painting sold for \u00a32,800 which was above estimates A private collection of paintings by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-153262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}