Painting by former Grimsby Town footballer sells for above estimate at weekend auction

                                                               

Winter landscape - but where is the location?

THIS oil-on-canvas by former Grimsby Town footballer John Trickett yesterday sold for above the pre-sale estimate at an auction in Yorkshire.

Leyburn-based auction house Tennants had predicted it would sell for between £100 and £150, but bidding had reached £170 before the hammer fell.

The artist, who is 72, was born in Sheffield but spent his early life in Cleethorpes and Grimsby where he attended Wintringham School.

He subsequently trained to be an accountant, but his skills on the football field resulted in his being taken on first by The Mariners, then by Torquay United for whom he played professionally.

After his playing days ended, he returned to Grimsby, working as a forklift truck driver and supplemented his earnings with paintings of dogs (notably labradors) , birds and landscapes.

So much in demand was his art that he went on to make it the main source of his income.

The identity of the successful has not been revealed nor the location of the scene depicted in the painting.