SALE OF ART TREASURES

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1926, Page 15

SALE OF ART TREASURES

SENSATIONAL PRICES PAID LORD MICHELHAM’S COLLECTION. ASTONISHING FIGURES REA USED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 24. The historic Sale of the late Lord Michelliam’s art treasures, reputed to have cost a million sterling, drew buyers from all parts of, the world. Sensational prices were paid at the first day’s auction. Porcelains, antique furniture, and tapestries realised £140,000. The French furniture brought astonishing prices. A Louis Quinze secretaire brought 97.10 guineas. In the tapestries Mr. Duveen paid £19,000 for an 18th century Gobelins panel. Another Beauvais tapestry suite brought £15,500.

At the second day’s sale 15 pictures realised £405,000. Two Boucher’s panels realised £45,000. Romney’s “Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress” sold for £40,000. Other Romneys sold were: “Anne, Lady De La Pole,” £44,000; “Lady Elizabeth Forbes,” £23,000; "Captain Little's Children,” £21,000. Gainsborough’s “Miss Tatton” sold for £44,000 and “Master Heathcote” for £40,000. Raeburn’s “Mrs. Robert Williamson” brought £23,500. Mr. Duveen paid £74,000 for Lawrence’s portrait of Mary Moulton Barrett (Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wife of the poet).