£13,230 FOR A TURNER

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 206, 20 August 1908, Page 4

£13,230 FOR A TURNER

SALE OJ/ TlLliKii, PAIMIiNUa rUK ,£27,000. LOJS'DO-N, June jtf. Over £27,000 was realised for tlnve paintings by Turner at the Holland sale at ClimUe'a this week, one alone—a view of Mortlake Terrace, a iriagniiLcont example of his middle periodattaining the record price of £13,230. J n 181)5 this same picture realised £I4OO. The bidding commenced with tihe modest oiler of 10U0 guineas, which was immediately capped by one of 5000 guineas from Mr Wallis. Soon the price had reached 10,000 guineas, when the bidding developed Into a duel between Messrs Agnew and Messrs lvnoedler, tlio latter being declared victor at 12,000 guineas. TJie other two pictures "were examples of Turner's lalesfc style, and measured no mo™ than twelve inches in height. Despite this fact, however, the first entitled "The Storm," realised . £5770, and the other, "The Morning Alter .the Storm, 1 ' went for JISOSS, both being secured by Messrs CoJnaghi and Co. after a still' fight with Mr Hugh Bluker, curator of the llolboume Art Museum, Jlatli, Karlier in the sale another remarkable incident occurred "when a Yiew of ; j Salisbury Cathedral, by Constable, one of l he most maguilieent examples of this painter's work that have appeared at auction for many years, realised the record sum of £811)0, tire purchasers being Messis Knocdler and Co. Many other important works contributed towards the day's total of £03,384. A characteristic work of MillaN, "Caller llerrin/' made €IB7O, or £205 more, than was-paid for it at the Dunloy sale in 1904; and a replica of Orchiidson's well-known painting in the Tnto Callerv. "Napoleon on board the Jiellerophon," realised £IOBO. The. saddenimr feature of the marked appreciation of the best examples of British art is that both the recordbreakers are to leave the country to swell Hie art treasures of America.