ROMANCE IN ART.
The vicissitudes of art are curiously illustrated by a lawsuit in Paris concerning a portrait by Lawrence, which, beside its association with the great English portrait painter, brings to light a little romance of an English Royal Duke in the days of George 111. The portrait is of a Mr Strachan, of Nairn, who is stated to have been a morganatic son of the duke and a friend of the artist. How this picture can have been lost for nearly a century is unknown;but four years ago a _I. Leon, an r.mateur, bought it at a Paris dealer's, and on cleaning It up brought to light a note signed by Rose Strachan, a daughter of the subject, requesting her residuary legatee to convey the picture to the Comte de Las Casas, whose grandfather was the friend of her family. The count brought action for possession of the portrait on the strength of this note, but the court decided that It constituted no title of the nature of property.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 272, 14 November 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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