GREAT ART SALE.
SENSATIONAL PRICES PAID.
COLLECTION OF LATE PEER. (Received 5.5 p.m.) g nn . LONDON, Nov. 24. The sale of the art treasures of the late Lord Michelham, which are reputed to have cost £1,000,000, drew buyers from all parts of the world. Sensational prices were paid at the first day's auction sale. Ihe porcelains, antique furniture and tapestries realised £140,000. Some French furniture realised astonishing prices, a Louis Quinze secretaire being sold for 9750 guineas. In tapestries Mr. E. J. Duveen, an art expert, paid £19,000 for an eighteenth century Gobelins panel, and a Besuvais tapestry suite brought £15,600. At the second day's sale 15 pictures realised £405,000. Two Boucher panels were purchased for £45,000 and Romney's "Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress" sold for £40,000.
Other Romneys sold were:—"Annie Lady Delapole," £44,000; "Lady Elizabeth Forbes," £23,000; and "Captain Little's Children," £21,000.
Gainsborough's " Miss Tat ton" sold for £44,000 and his "Master Heathcote" for £40,000. 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19495, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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