DUBLIN, IRELAND.- The sale of art from the Langham family was sold for £1.1 million in Dublin. A portrait by Francis Cotes of Sir James Langham, the seventh baronet of Cottesbrooke, painted in about 1767, sold for £215,000. Sir John Langham, the 16th and current baronet, stated he will never talk to his mother again, Lady Marion.

 

The widow of the 15th baronet was left the contents of Tempo Manor, near Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, and her son was left the 300-acre estate.

 

After the auction, Sir John, 44, who still lives in the six-bedroomed house with his wife Lady Sarah and their three children, said: "It really was very sad to see everything going out of the door for a second time. It was quite literally watching your family being carted out in bubble wrap. I did initially offer my mother STG500,000 for around half of everything - the things that were part of the providence of Tempo Manor, but she declined. In the end, I managed to get back some of the later portraits and furniture but the rest I could only watch go unfortunately, it was just too expensive."