Agnes Miller Parker’s Rare Painting Fetches £176,600

At Lyon & Turnbull’s Scottish Paintings & Sculpture auction in Edinburgh, a rare tempera work by Scottish artist Agnes Miller Parker, The Horse Fair (1928), sold for £176,600, an auction record for the artist. The painting, one of only a handful of her modernist pieces, was long on loan at the National Galleries of Scotland and previously owned by writer Naomi Mitchison’s family. Trained at Glasgow School of Art, Miller Parker is better known for wood engravings and illustrations.