Word: cleghorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your July 19 article, "Anchors Aweigh," and its picture of the U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides": I am proud to learn that Old Ironsides is being restored; proud because . . . James Cleghorn . . . who drew the plans for the ship was my great-greatgrandfather, and Colonel George Cleghorn, who sacrificed his fortune to help build her . . . was my great-great-granduncle. A plaque giving information about Colonel Cleghorn is located in the bow of Old Ironsides . . . I am 83 years of age . . . and proud...
...fooled whom? With Cleghorn dead, it is impossible to tell; he had bought most of his pictures through an English "artist" who kept his eyes open for European purchases. "It's a very complicated situation," says Eckhardt with a sigh. "I don't know what...
...majority of the questioned paintings have no signatures, and most were donated by James Cleghorn, a wealthy Winnipeg hardware merchant, who died in 1936. Of the supposed old masters donated to the gallery from the Cleghorn collection, which was once insured for $250,000, declared Eckhardt, all are either copies or outright fakes. Items...
...Early Holland, a landscape attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Younger (1564-1638), valued by Cleghorn at $2,000. It was probably painted much later, says Eckhardt: "I would not hang this picture in my own home or anywhere...
...woman's head, attributed to Joshua Reynolds, valued by Cleghorn at $1,500. Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks that the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann...