PAINTING BRINGS £182,000
Money For Estate Improvements f.V.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 7. The sale of a painting in London today means villagers on a Northumberland estate will get an electricity supply and water mains. The painting is “The Unknown • Cavalier,” by the seventeenth century Flemish portrait painter, Frans Hals. It brought £182,000. Major David Warde-Aldam. who offered the old master, said he would use the money to modernise houses he owned, the "‘Daily Sketch” reported. The painting was bought by his grandfather for less than £lOO.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 28
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