THE TITIAN PORTRAITS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 5

THE TITIAN PORTRAITS.

GERMANY DISAPPOINTED. By Telejraph-Press Associatlon-Copyrienl London, April 26. "The Times" says that few persons were aware that the two Titian portraits, purchased at Munich by-a London firm for .£60,000, were on the market, and the announcement of their purchase created consternation in Germany, where for a -quarter of a century it had been thought that'one would find a perman- ' ent home in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum;' . BIG PRICES. It was announced in March that Lord .SacWille had fold • the famous group 'of Eliza and Tom Linley, which was among the chief treasures of the Kncle collection. The price is stated to be in the neighbourhood of £40,006, which was stated to be far in excess of. any record at public auction, although- pictures by .Gainsborough harp on several occasions chanted hands privately at prices ranging from .630,000 to .-£40,000. At the <"> me t» ne 't, was . announced that the hree-fjuarter-length portrait of Philip IV, by Velasquez, which in De- ■ oembeV last was bought by Messrs Agnew in Austria at a price riot "far short of ,£BO,OOO, had passed into the hands of Mr. Henry C. Frick. the well- , Known American collector. For Rembrandt's landscape. "The Mill," ,£IOO 000 was-given on behalf of an American collector to Lord Lansdowne, the owner Turner's ' picture "The ■ Calais Packet Boat, was recently sold for ,£40,000.