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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...
...painting is one of two known Copley renderings of Bessborough??another hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Copley scholar Jules D. Prown, who received his doctorate at Harvard in 1961 and is a professor emeritus at Yale, remembered seeing the portrait in Harvard’s collections when he was a doctoral student, and he said that there is a good chance the painting is authentic...
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