What appears to be the last art auction of the current year takes place in Dublin tomorrow when Whyte's offers a wide range of works for sale at the Gresham Hotel. Described as being "art for everyone", the event certainly contains a wide range of items and prices. In terms of the latter, the picture likely to attract the highest bids is lot 64, an oil by the Northern Irish landscape artist Frank McKelvey who died in 1974.

Because of the charm of his subject matter, McKelvey has never dropped out of fashion in this country and examples of his work come up quite regularly at auction; last May, a new record for his pictures was set at Sotheby's when Woman and Child feeding Chickens sold for £78,300 sterling.

Only a little smaller than this painting, lot 64, which is called Woman and Child on Country Lane, therefore seems to be carrying a relatively modest estimate of £6,000-£8,000, particularly since its style is so immediately winning.

Almost as delightful is lot 20, a watercolour landscape by another artist from Northern Ireland, Olive Henry. Her work tends to be less familiar than that of McKelvey, perhaps because much of her long career (she died in 1989 at the age of 87) was spent designing stained glass windows. However, when her watercolours are offered at auction, they tend to fetch around the same figure as the estimate given by Whyte's on this occasion: £250-£350.

Other items in tomorrow's sale have considerable historical interest, such as lot 143, a pair of studies of oak trees in Dublin's Phoenix Park by the watercolourist and illustrator Henry Brocas Senior (1762-1837). Offered together and expected to make £300-£400, the two pencil drawings were made in October and November 1805, four years after Brocas had been appointed master of landscape and ornament at the Dublin Society's art school, where his pupils included Sir Frederick William Burton, later director of the National Gallery in London. A large number of Brocas's drawings are now in the possession of the National Library of Ireland.

Then there are four pictures by Thomas Danby, son of the better known romantic artist Francis Danby, whose work is more commonly offered for sale. Two of the four are pen and ink drawings, lots 45 and 115, of boats in South Wales and Kenilworth Castle respectively, carrying the same estimate of £400-£500. The other pair, lots 90 and 99, are seashore scene watercolours with estimates of £400-£500 and £450-£500.

Given the large number of entries in the sale, only a handful can be mentioned here. However, it is worth observing that the event, which starts at 1 p.m. tomorrow, also includes a great many familiar names from more recent times.

The next Fine Art and Antiques page will appear on Saturday, January 6th.