CONISTON features strongly in a series of paintings being offered for sale at auction.

Perhaps the best known of the artists represented is William Gershom Collingwood, who lived from 1854 to 1932.

A picture of his from February 1915 is included in the March 15 sale by Woolley and Wallis, of Salisbury in Wiltshire.

It is called Coniston Old Man from the top of Lave Crags, mist clearing and is expected to sell for £300 to £500.

Collingwood was a great friend of Victorian writer, artist and social visionary John Ruskin.

He designed Ruskin’s memorial in the grounds of the village church and war memorials at places such as Coniston and Hawkshead.

Two Coniston views are included in the March 9 sale by Mitchells at Cockermouth.

A watercolour called Rising clouds, Coniston Water from near waterside is expected to sell for £200 to £300.

It is the work of Edward Horace Thompson, who lived from 1879 to 1949 and this picture is dated 1929.

The second picture is estimated at a more modest £50 to £80 and is the work of J. A. Pettitt, called Grey day in autumn, Coniston Lake.

The oil on canvas painting is dated 1890.

A sale by Byrne’s Fine Art Auctioneers of Chester on March 8 has a pair of watercolours by Elliot Henry Marten called Coniston and Ullswater.

They are expected to sell for £200 to £300.

Mitchells at Cockermouth expects £400 to £600 on March 9 for a 1906 first edition of The Story of Miss Moppett by Lakeland author and illustrator Beatrix Potter.

The same sale has a Scottish Mauchlin ware needleholder showing a tiny view of Cartmel Priory and a tartan ware thread box, together valued at £30 to £50.

A sale of March 15 by Woolley and Wallis, of Salisbury, hopes for £2,500 to £3,500 for a portrait miniature of Lady Westmorland.

The painting is the work of George Engleheart, who lived from 1752 to 1829.

Lady Susan was the wife of John Fane, 9 th Earl of Westmorland.

She was Susan Gordon and was later remarried to Colonel John Woodford.

The March 8 sale by Byrne’s Fine Art Auctioneers, of Chester, expects £100 to £150 for a watercolour of Cartmel Sands, Cumbria by Oswald Garside, who lived from 1879 to 1942.

A soccer programme for the Barrow AFC home fixture against Mansfield on May 1 in 1948 is expected to make £18 to £20 in the March 10 sale by Sportingold at Saunderton, Buckinghamshire.

Barrow won this final match of the season by a goal to nil.

The same sale has a programme from the match between Carlisle and Barrow AFC January 23 in 1954 at £10 to £12.

Also on offer is a four-page Manchester City programme for the Lancashire Senior Cup first round match against Barrow on November 4 in 1953. It should make £25 to £30.

The March 15 sale by Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood at Exeter has a group of seven large exhibition photographs from the mid-19 th century by Lucie M. Jones.

Two of the mounted pictures show Cartmel Priory and the group of seven is expected to sell by £30 to £50.

The April 1 sale by G. W. Railwayana Auctions, of Pershore, Worcestershire, has a Midland Railway station name board in two sections for Oxhenholme, where passengers change for the branch line to Windermere.