A dirty old portrait of Robert Burns was recently bought at a broker's shop in Toronto for £2. It bas been carefully cleaned, and turns out to be an oil painting by Baeburn, dated 1787. The purchaser now values it at £2,000, acd he intends to send it to ScotlanJ for exhibition, with a view to its sale. This picture was bought many years ago at the sale of the household effects of a deceased Scj.cu farmer in Canada.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 17, 17 August 1888, Page 27
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79Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 17, 17 August 1888, Page 27
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