Word: colnaghi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landscapes of Shoreham are among the most sought-after works in English romantic landscape painting. Palmer made some 80 Shoreham watercolors, oils and drawings; Keating made 80 more-mainly by copying details of Palmers and cobbling them together. The first such "Palmer" was sold to a British museum by Colnaghi's, a major Bond Street dealer, in 1965. In 1969 another "Palmer," titled Sepham Barn, went at auction to the Leger Galleries for ?9,400 ($22,560), a sum that staggered Keating and enabled him and his lover, Jane Kelly, the 23-year-old daughter of a retired British...
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