Market news: Saenredam, Canaletto and Tin Tin Fortunately for the lady who had consigned it for sale, it was then confirmed as an authentic and very rare Saenredam, and entered in last week's sales with a £400,000 to £600,000 estimate. And if that was not good enough news for her, it sold to London dealer Jean-Luc Baroni for a record £3.7 million. London Old Master dealer Fabrizio Moretti, who specialises in Italian gold-ground paintings, was out shopping at London's recent contemporary art sales where he bought a Gilbert & George photographic work featuring a crucifix against a gold leaf sky for £115,250. Moretti is on the committee of the new Frieze Masters fair embracing the old and the new, which opens in London in October, but told journalists that this was for his private collection. A rare and previously unrecorded drawing of Venice by Canaletto was the highlight of last week's drawings sales when it quadrupled estimates at Sotheby's, selling for a record £1.9 million. It had been in a private family collection for over 100 years, its value unrecognised. After a long bidding battle, it was bought by the Zurich-based consultant and co-author of the catalogue of Italian drawings in the Ratjen Foundation in Vaduz, David Lachenmann. Tintin came a cropper in Sotheby's first auction devoted to comic-strip art held in Paris last week. The sale, estimated to fetch 2.2 million euros, managed only 600,000 euros as drawings by Hergé, expected to raise as much as 240,000 euros each, failed to sell. It's not been much of a summer for cricket so far, but Bonhams at least has something to whet the appetites of those with a sentimental bent. Captain of the Eleven was painted by the Victorian artist Philip Hermogenes Calderon in 1882, and by 1898 it had entered the collection of A & F Pears, who used it in their famous soap advertising campaign along with Millais's Bubbles. Soon the image was used on countless posters, postcards and presentation cricket bats. Since 1926, it has hung in a primary school in Blackpool, which is selling it on Wednesday this week to raise funds for the school with an estimate of £100,000 to £150,000.