LONDON.- Sotheby’s Sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art, on Thursday, December 16, 2010, will open with Masterpieces, fourteen lots comprising a carefully selected group of paintings and watercolours from private collections, estimated to bring in the region of £3million. In the wake of the extraordinary price recently achieved for Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Finding of Moses at Sotheby’s in New York ($35.92m / £22.26m), Sotheby’s auction will afford collectors the opportunity to acquire exemplary pictures by Tissot, Burne-Jones, Millais, Atkinson Grimshaw, Godward and Holman Hunt, among others. Tender portrayals of two women, namely a portrait of Burne-Jones’ wife Georgiana and an evocation of winter in the form of Tissot’s adored partner and favourite model, Kathleen Newton, reveal biographical details about the lives they shared together. Portrait of Georgiana Burne-Jones