Word: dyck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come: Sir Joshua Reynolds' idyllic portrait of The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke; a batch of first-water Rembrandts, including a famed Portrait of a Youth; Flemish Primitive Aelbrecht Bouts's well-known Annunciation; landscapes and portraits by Hobbema, Cuyp, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner and Van Dyck; remarkable collections of 15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with an eye to the needs of the Cleveland museum, so the museum found little...
...ceilings imported from Italian palaces, a ballroom 63 ft. long and 45 ft. high, it was decorated by the late, famed Stanford White. All its furnishings and every fixture that can be detached will be aucioned off April 29 and 30. Among the furnishings: paintings by Gainsborough and Van Dyck, 35 tapestries...
...gallery of nine over-average Rembrandts; 3) a bevy of British mantelpiece portraits, including Sir Joshua Reynolds' famed $500,000 portrait of Lady Elizabeth Compton; 4) top-flight pictures by Dutchmen Vermeer and Frans Hals, Flemings van Eyck, Memling, Rubens and van Dyck. Conservative by present-day museum standards, the Gallery is long on portraiture, short on Spanish art, entirely lacking in important French works...
...Other Decker "portraits": Harpo Marx as the Blue Boy, Fanny Brice as Mono, Lisa, Mickey Rooney as a Van Dyck sissy...
What whetted dealers' and collectors' interest in the Ryan sale were its Rembrandts and Dürers, 56 engravings by pioneer Engraver Martin Schongauer, a complete series of Van Dyck's 20 portrait etchings. Sent over by the Belgian Government to buy the entire Van Dyck set was Dealer Richard H. Zinser. He made a group bid of $28,000 'for them, saw them knocked down individually for a total of $40,500. The Van Dyck self-portrait he lost to Knoedler's at $6,600. For Rembrandt's The Three Trees Dealer Zinser...