Having been kept safely - in storage boxes under a bed - this will be their [the lots offered] first appearance on the market for more than 60 years and in some cases much longer. 

Iolo Williams was a museums and art critic for The Times from 1936 onwards and an avid collector.  Born in Middlesborough, he lived in Hindhead in his youth and latterly in Kew, south-west of London, and formed his collection from the 1930’s to the 1950’s when unidentified drawings could be picked up for a modest price from dealers and auctions. Through diligent research, he identified many works as being by leading exponents of the golden age of British drawings and watercolours: artists such as Thomas Girtin, Richard Wilson, William Payne, John Varley and Paul Sandby. He also discovered and put on record other artists about whom little was then known.