Brisbane couple Steve and Jane Wilson put paintings from their art collection up for auction at Brisbane City Hall Jane and Steve Wilson with the John Olsen painting Poet's Garden. BRISBANE power couple Steve and Jane Wilson hope to make millions auctioning off most of their impressive art collection. They have one of Queensland's finest private collections, but have decided it is time to downsize. "We have too many pictures and not enough wall space," Mr Wilson said. So the couple engaged Melbourne company Mossgreen Auctions to help clear out 171 family treasures tomorrow at Brisbane City Hall. Sidney Nolan's The Camel Driver is expected to fetch $250,000 at the auction. The collection includes a fine 1949 painting by Sidney Nolan, The Camel Driver, which is expected to fetch $250,000. A massive painting by the much loved John Olsen, Poet's Garden, painted in 2005, should rival the Nolan, price-wise; and Head of a Boy, by William Dobell, sounds like a steal at $20,000 to $30,000. There are paintings by Ray Crooke, William Robinson, Sam Fullbrook and other well-known and lesser-known artists, as well as antiques, many collected by Steve Wilson when he was a young stockbroker working in London. When I came back to Brisbane in 1984, I thought 'do I leave everything behind or get a container?' I ended up needing two," he said. Ray Crooke's Islanders Resting is estimated to sell for about $80,000. Among pieces he shipped home that will go under the hammer is a George III inlaid mahogany long-case clock by Edward Shepley of Manchester, circa 1800, which is expected to sell for $4000-$6000. Mr Wilson is best known as chairman of Wilson HTM Investment Group Queensland and is a former chairman of South Bank Corporation. Jane Wilson, a doctor, has multiple roles, including as a director of health fund Bupa and the University of Queensland Art Museum. The couple started collecting together when they married in 1987, but now want to clear some space and refocus on contemporary indigenous and Asian art. The Steven and Jane Wilson Collection can be viewed in the Sister Cities Room, level 2, Brisbane City Hall, today and tomorrow, 10am to 6pm. The auction is tomorrow at 4pm.