A MASTERPIECE by a leading painter of the Glasgow School is expected to fetch up to £50,000 at auction later this year.
The Hour Glass was completed around 1910 by pioneering artist George Henry, from Irvine in Ayrshire.
The portrait depicts Henry’s wife, who often posed for him, wearing a kimono from his tour of Japan in 1893-94 with fellow Glasgow Boys artist Edward Hornel, which influenced his work, and watching an hour glass.
The signed oil painting is one of a number of 
Scottish artworks from a “superb collection” assembled by the Weir engineering family that will be sold at Bonhams in Edinburgh on 
October 11.
Chris Brickley, Bonhams’ head of Scottish art, said the painting had all the “hallmarks of Henry’s mid-period work, superb brushwork and a masterly control of palette.
“The Weir family were great collectors of 
Scottish art and had superb taste attributes which are particularly important to buyers looking for the 
reassurance of 
impeccable provenance.”
The life of Henry, who died in 1943, is shrouded in mystery – even his birth date has never been confirmed although it is placed in 1858.
His father’s name was Hendry but George dropped the “d” as a young man.
He trained in Glasgow and was among the pioneering Scottish painters of the last two decades of the 19th century, exploring landscape, naturalism and the folklore of Galloway.