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...Crimson first reported on its Web site Thursday afternoon that two long lost Harvard paintings had appeared at the Stair auction...
Harvard University Art Museums spokesman Daron J. Manoogian confirmed Friday that the paintings sold at the Kingsland auction are Copley’s “Second Earl of Bessborough” and a Kirkland portrait that matches an item missing from Harvard’s collection...
...unnamed oil-on-canvas portrait signed “Copley RA” and dated 1790 was sold for $85,000 at an auction Saturday by Stair Galleries in Hudson, N.Y.—far above the auction house’s initial price estimate of $1,500 to $2,500. The painting is identical to Copley’s portrait of William Ponsonby, the second earl of Bessborough, according to an art professional who asked that his name not be printed to preserve his relationship with the auction house...
...items listed in the Stair Galleries auction was labeled “J.T. Kirkland.” And the figure in that portrait bears a striking resemblance to the sitter in American painter Gilbert Stuart’s 1816 portrait of then-Harvard President John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789. Though the auction house estimated a $200 to $400 price tag for the Kirkland portrait, the item ultimately sold...
...painting was sold when the William M. V. Kingsland Estate went on the auction block this past weekend...