LONDON.- An outstanding private collection of 15 works by Archibald Thorburn will feature in the next 19th Century Paintings auction at Bonhams New Bond Street on 13th July 2011. This follows on from the success of Bonhams 19th Century Paintings auction in January, where Covey at Daybreak – Partridges sold for £192,000 – the second highest price ever paid for a Thorburn painting at auction. The highlight in the collection is the magnificent Peacock and Peacock Butterfly which is estimated to fetch £80,000-120,000. At 87.5 x 111.5cm it is one of the largest of Thorburn’s paintings, and it shows a large peacock proudly displaying his extravagant plumage, in contrast to the delicate and beautifully detailed peacock butterfly in the foreground. Hugh Gladstone wrote in Thorburn’s obituary in the Scottish Naturalist, January 1936, “of all his pictures…the most daring was a gigantic one…of a peacock in