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"Christie\u2019s have announced that two works from the collection of Australian entrepreneur and Pre-Raphaelite expert John Schaeffer will be offered in the sale of Victorian &amp;amp; British Impressionist Art in London on the 13th of December 2012.The Wrestling Scene in \u2018As You Like It\u2019 by Daniel Maclise R.A. (1806-1870) and Chivalry by Sir Francis Dicksee P.R.A. (1853-1928) come to auction after a six-month loan to Leighton House for the \u201CVictorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite and Nineteenth-Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection\u201D exhibition.Featured on the front cover of the Christie\u2019s catalogue, Chivalry, by Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, is one of the artist\u2019s most attractive works and is a wonderful embodiment of late Victorian romanticism at its most theatrical and uninhibited (estimate: \u00A3600,000 \u2013 800,000).Maclise\u2019s The Wrestling Scene in \u2018As You Like It\u2019 is a rare illustration to Shakespeare on such a scale. The epic painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1855 and is recognised as one of the artist\u2019s finest works (estimate: \u00A3300,000 \u2013 500,000).Over the past 25 years John Schaeffer has been one of the world\u2019s most prominent collectors of British nineteenth-century art.&amp;nbsp; A major painting from Schaeffer\u2019s collection, Il Dolce Far Niente by William Holman Hunt, is currently on display at the TATE museum as part of their Pre-Raphaelite exhibition.To view the auction catalogue click here[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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