Wise people who frequent the exquisite little Penlee Gallery in Penzance will be familiar with one of its prize exhibits: The rain it raineth every day (1889); by the Irish artist Norman Garstin (1847-1926). It shows the rain-swept Promenade at Penzance. But in 2003, another of his pictures passed through the London Sale Rooms, and here is part of the Christie's Catalogue entry,
