Word: cimon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen's man for approximately $260,000, the elegant watchers burst into applause. Romney's Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia brought $60. And Van Dyke's Infant Bacchanals brought $15. The applause of the patrons of Christie was quite in the best tradition. It has always been the habit of the fashionable world to applaud the picture of the late Mr. Romney. That the works of his immortal...