b"70149149 150FREDERICK WEEKES, R.A. ARTIST UNKNOWN(British, 18331920), Veules, 1887,Keeping a Lookout, oil on board,watercolour, circa 1880, signed indistinctly, dated and titled lower left,signed in monogram lower left, 24 x 34cm.25 x 22.5cm. $3,0005,000Frederick Weekes belonged to a deeply artistic family. His father was the sculptor Henry Weekes (1807-1877), one151of the most successful sculptors of the mid-Victorian period;ARTIST UNKNOWN his uncle was the artist William Weekes (1856-1909); and two of his four brothers, Henry and Herbert, were genre painters(Australian Impressionist School),best known for their animal studies. Frederick was brought(Mother and Child on the Shore),up in an environment which nurtured his artistic sensibilities.oil on canvas, circa 1890s,He trained as a painter, but also became a renowned expertsigned with initials lower right M.C.,on medieval costume and design, and even taught at the25.5 x 30.5cm.Architectural Museum.Weekes interest in the Middle Ages led to a working$1,0002,000relationship with the Victorian architect William Burges (1827-1881), who was a great champion of the Gothic152Revival. Burges commissioned him to work on a number ofCHARLES EDWARD CONDER (18681909)his projects, most notably the re-building of Cardiff CastleUntitled (Three Ladies in a Garden for which Weekes painted furniture and friezes. His triptych, The Water Carriers was sold by Christie's New York forOverlooking a Mediterranean Coastline),US$140,500 in October 2008. watercolour on silk, circa 1895,$1,0001,500 signed Conder at lower left,24 x 35.5cm.$4,0006,000 "