Devonshires decide to clear out the Chatsworth attics
JUST one week after Christie’s held their series of London sales from the cellars, storehouses and attics of Althorp, ancestral home of the Spencer family, Sotheby’s announced that they are to hold an autumn auction of attic treasures from Chatsworth, the Derbyshire home of the Dukes of Devonshire.
The works from Althorp comprised a £1.62m, 757-lot attic sale, with a further £4m garnered from 78 l…