Mr Old said: "The painting had a back board ... his work as a rent collector to visit Berwick-upon-Tweed and Sunderland to paint, and noted that the north-east of England was what he had "always ...

Mr Cartner's granddaughter, Helen Clay, inherited the work in 2019 and surprised collectors when she revealed the painting was in her home in Hylton Castle, Sunderland. "It was hanging on my wall ...