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...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...
...mystery surrounds the Bessborough portrait as well. The University Art Museums website includes an entry for the work but does not list it as missing or stolen. But unlike 20 of the 23 other Copley paintings listed in Harvard's collection, the University Art Museums website has no archived image of the Bessborough portrait...
Rowlandson's energy is infectious. It fairly seethes in images like A Gaming Table at Devonshire House, 1791, where two of the wild aristocratic beauties of the day -- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her sister Lady Bessborough -- preside like maenads over the eddy of faces, dicing table and money, and a lecherous buck offers a woman a purse which, none too subtly, is shaped like a pair of testicles...
...elephants wallowing in water. As a result of all the confusion ("I can't believe," cried Burgomaster Francois van Kinschot, "that the British ambassador would make such fun of me!"), British authorities had the very devil of a time convincing the citizens of Leiden that the Earl of Bessborough, chairman of the organizing committee, was really an earl and that visiting Lecturer Sir Charles Darwin was indeed the genuine grandson of a famed, genuine biologist...
Died. Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 75, ninth Earl of Bessborough, onetime (1931-35) Governor General of Canada; in Rowlands Castle, England...