PRICES SOAR
FAMOUS PICTURES SOLD TREASURES LEAVE ENGLAND By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Friday. At a sale of pictures at Christie's, Romney’s “Lady in Muslin,” realised 10,000 guineas and the Prescott group 9.200 guineas. Romney’s “Lady Hamilton as Bacchante” brought 3,300 guineas, and “Lady Hamilton as Cassandra,” 2,800, and his “Mrs. Lambarde,” 8,500 guineas. Raeburn’s “Mrs. Austin” brought 5,400 guineas, Gainsborough’s “James Christie” (the founder of Christie’s), 7.200 guineas, Sir Joshua Reynolds’s “Lady Keppel,” 6,200 guineas. The Romney pictures realised altogether 38,600 guineas. They were largely purchased for America. The sales for the day totalled £136,632.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 May 1927, Page 1
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