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...portrait by the 16th century Dutch painter Jan Mostaert. A portrait by Van Dyck went for a disappointing $27,000, which was $53,000 below the Parke-Bernet estimate. On the other hand, a splendid Princess Sibylle of Cleves, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, was bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons of London for $105,000, about twice the estimate. After the Cranach came the Rembrandt...
Beautiful Wrinkles. Eakins was almost too honest for his own good. His great medical paintings, the Agnew Clinic and the Gross Clinic-the most daring works of their kind since Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson-so horrified the squeamish critics that some began calling him "a butcher." His paintings of boaters, swimmers and boxers-superb studies of water and muscle in motion-scorned the theatricality of the Hudson River school. His portraits were so penetrating that few prominent Philadelphians would even sit for him. One man explained: "He would bring out all the traits of my character that I have...
...their dark days of austerity. Britons were apt to find few experiences more painful than a successful art auction. At sale after sale, they saw their treasures knocked down to the prosperous bidders, who came mostly from the U.S. "It was.'' says London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, "a slaughter." But the slaughter is now over: Britons have not only been bidding princely sums to keep their Old Masters at home, they have even been bringing some that have been absent for decades back across the Atlantic...
...Robert Andrews was bought at Sotheby's for $364,000-the highest auction price paid for an English painting since the 1920s. Geoffrey Agnew has been paying between $30,000 and $56,000 for Turners and Constables, and is happy that he has done so ("Most reasonable," he says, in view of his subsequent profits...
...seller: the great-great-great-grandson of the Andrews couple, who posed under a tree that is still alive. The ostensible buyer: Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, but U.S. Oilman Paul Getty hovered at Agnew's side, looking grimly determined...