SALE OF ART TREASURES
SENSATIONAL PRICES PAID
405,000 GUINEAS FOR FIFTEEN PICTURES
London, November 21
The sale of the late Lord Miclielhani’s art treasures, which are said to have cost £1,000.000, drew buyers from all parts of the world. Sensational prices were paid at the first day’s auction, and the porcelains, antique furniture and tapestries realised £140,000. French furniture brought astonishing prices. A Louis Quinze secretaire was sold for 0750 guineas
In tlie tapestries, Sir Joseph Duveen paid 19,000 guineas for an eighteenth century Gobelin panel. Another Beauvais tapestry suite brought 15,500 guineas.
At the second day’s sale 15 pictures realised 405,000 guineas, and Romney’s “Ladv Hamilton as Ambassador,” 40,000 guineas. Othet Romneys sold were. "Anee, Lady Delapole,” 44,000 guineas; Ladv Elizabeth Forbes,” 23,000 guineas; “Captain Little’s Children,” 21,000 guineas. Gainsborough’s “Miss latton,” realised 44,000 guineas; and “Master Heathcote,” 10,000 guineas.
Raeburn's “Mrs. Robert Williamson” bronghf 9.3.500 guineas.
Sir Joseph Dueren paid 71,000 guineas for Lnwreeef's pnr'rait “Marv Moulton Barrett, mn: Elizabeth Barrett Browning." — Sydney “Sun ’ cable
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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167SALE OF ART TREASURES Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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