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Getty kept the painting, uncleaned, in storage for a quarter-century until a year ago, when a restorer at London's Thomas Agnew & Sons began to remove the scummy varnish. Was it Raphael's famous Madonna di Loreto of around 1510, known through more than 30 existing copies and through art-history references? X-ray and infra-red photography at London's Courtauld Institute probed its veil of oils, and now the best experts that Agnew can find say cautiously that the work seems to be an authentic Raphael. "The lightning strikes," said Getty. But, he adds...
...scoring his fourth touchdown in a single afternoon, Taylor broke a University mark (Charlie Ravanel scored three against Columbia in 1959) and tied an Ivy League record. Hewes Agnew has been the only other player to do the trick, scoring four times for Princeton...
When Rembrandt's St. Bartholomew was sold at Sotheby's fortnight ago for $532,000-fifth highest auction price ever paid for a painting-the buyer was Agnew's, a London art firm. But Agnew's was merely acting for Oilman J. Paul Getty, 69, who let it slip last week that he now had the masterpiece hanging in his Sutton Place mansion outside London...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still and all, the smaller (34 in. by 30 in.) and less ambitious St. Bartholomew had brought the fourth highest auction price yet for a single painting. When the painting was knocked down (to Agnew's, another big London art dealer), the old gentleman got up and drove off to his castle in Shropshire. He had spoken to no one during the sale, and no one had spoken...
...they might pick up on who might be ready to sell another heirloom. Duveen also had a wicked way of dealing with his competitors. Once, when a High Church duke asked him to take a look at a religious painting he was considering from the rival firm of Thomas Agnew & Sons, Duveen blandly said: "Very nice, my dear fellow, very nice. But I suppose you are aware that those cherubs are homo sexual." As Duveen's biographer S. N. Behrman tells it, the painting went back to Agnew's forthwith...