{"id":145331,"date":"2025-09-18T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145331\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:15:07","slug":"terance-james-bonds-wildlife-paintings-sell-for-21000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145331\/","title":{"rendered":"Terance James Bond&#8217;s wildlife paintings sell for \u00a321,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the years, they purchased many of his paintings, but as they prepared to downsize, they auctioned their collection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collection was owned by Mr and Mrs Robert Graves, who met Bond during a Royal Society for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-145331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}