13 November 2012
Last updated at 20:24 GMT

Seago’s painting shows the Butt Oyster on the River Orwell near Ipswich

A painting of a riverside pub in Suffolk has exceeded its estimated sale price at auction in London.

Bonhams had listed Edward Seago’s The Butt Oyster, Pin Mill at £20-30,000, but it has sold for £39,650.

The oil painting featured in an auction of East Anglian pictures held in Knightsbridge.

A painting of Dedham by the Essex artist Alfred Munnings, which was also estimated at £20-30,000, failed to sell.

The painting by Seago (1910-1974), who was born in Norwich and was a self-taught artist, was sold to a private buyer based in the UK.

The Munnings oil painting, called Landscape with Sheep, Dedham was painted in about 1942 as a wedding present for Norwich furrier Michael Carr and his wife Elizabeth.

Other items included Sunrise, Orwell Estuary (1989) by Maggi Hambling, which sold for its upper estimated value of £2,500 and a drawing by Ipswich-based Daily Express cartoonist Giles called To Harold, This Flattering Epic which fetched £1,000.

The Ipswich and Colchester Museums Service made a successful bid for an 1859 painting of what is now an outdoors and camping shop in Ipswich town centre.

The service will pay £1,750 for The Great White Horse Hotel by Henry Davey, which was estimated to sell for £1,000-£1,500.

The building on Tavern Street featured in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.