PAINTINGS feature strongly in next Wednesday afternoon's house contents sale conducted by Drums at Somerlayton in Sutton, Co Dublin. There is, for example, an oil by Heywood Hardy (estimate £5,000-£7,000), a 19th century Italian oil signed R. Monserrat and showing Amalfi (£1,000-£2,000), plus a selection of marine pictures.

Furniture is not neglected either, with a single-door boulle cabinet expected to make £1,900-£2,000, an Irish Georgian peat-bucket estimated at £1,200-£1,500, a satinwood work table likely to sell for £700-£1,000 and a large mid-Victorian mahogany cheval mirror (£400-£600).