 In two cases he broke the record for the highest sum ever paid at auction for a contemporary artist in order to buy the pictures he desired.Highlights of the collection include Sir John Everett Millais' "The Princes in the Tower" (1878), Sir Edwin Landseer's "Man Proposes, God Disposes" (1864), Edwin Long's "Babylonian Marriage Market" (1875) and William Powell Frith's "The Railway Station" (1862).The pieces in the Herringham collection reflect her interests in the old masters, Indian art and women’s suffrage.