ART-DEALER'S SUICIDE
SOLD GENUINE REMBRANDT FOR ■ , ■ • £120. By T«lflirrcTili—Tr««»ii Aas-artntioD-CYinvTiclil ■ "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. (Uec. March .9, 5.40 p-m.) New York, March 8. . Heron Blakeslee, an art-dealer, shot himself on hearing, tho news that a painting that Jio had sold for £120 had proved to be a genuine Rembrandt worth £30,000. He had had trouble with his creditors, being unable to sell pictures he had purchased in Europe for £300,000. Ho placed all his pictures round the 'room, and, gazing : at Rubens's "Adoration of the Magi," committed suicide.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2003, 10 March 1914, Page 5
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89ART-DEALER'S SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2003, 10 March 1914, Page 5
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