ART TREASURES
A SUCCESSFUL SALE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 24. An historic sale of the late Lord Michelham’s art treasures, reputed to have cost one million sterling, drew buyers from all parts of the world. Sensational prices were paid. At the finjt. day’s auction, the porcelains, antique furniture and tapestries realised £140,000. French furniture brought astonishing prices. A Louis Quinze secretaire sold at 750 guineas. In tapestries Mr. Duveen paid 19,000 guineas for an eighteenth century Gobelins panel. Another Boauvais tapestry suite brought £15,500. At the second day’s sale fifteen pictures realised £405,00.Tw0 of Boucher's panels realised £45,000. & “Lady Hamilton as an Ambassadress” sold for £40,000. Other Romneys sold were: ‘‘Anne Lady Delapole,” for £44,000; “Lady Elizabeth Forbes,” for £23,000; and “Captain Little’s Cnildren,” £21,000. Gainsborough’s “Miss Tatton” sold for £44,000; and his “Master Heathcote” fetched £40,00. Raeburn’s “Mistress Robert Williamson” brought £23,500. £ Mr. Duveen paid £74,000 for Lawrence’s portrait “Mary Moulton Barrett, aux Elizabeth Barrett Browning.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1926, Page 6
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