Word: gainsborough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, came the announcement that Duveen Bros., famed London dealers, had bought six of them-three Reynoldses, a Gainsborough, a Van Dyke, a Frans Hals-for a sum said to approximate $1,500,000.* The portraits would be shipped to the U. S. "soon," said the Duveens...
...Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught. There were two Hogarths from The Rake's Progress series, two portraits by Reynolds, a romantic landscape by Gainsborough, a liberal representation of other 18th Century painters...
...John P. Morgan (Manhattan), Michael Friedsam (Manhattan), Henry E. Huntington (Los Angeles). In addition to the group of Rembrandts (probably the finest in the world), it contains several items acquired from the Morgan collection: some immensely valuable tapestries, two marbles by Donatello and paintings by such masters as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Constable, Holbein, Hals, Hobbema, Rubens, Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Dupre, Raphael, Tintoretto, Murillo, Goya, Velasquez...
...huge and delicious toy, perfect to the last minute detail. The art of bookmaking touches the highwater mark in the artistic display, perfect in taste and in texture. Decorated interiors, varying in merit, may be observed in six rooms, one of 1750 with Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits, a Handel duet on the table; one of 1815 designed to reproduce the character of a sitting- room of the Becky Sharp-Waterloo period; the 1852 room of the now so fashionable mid-Victorian era is the most amusing, every available inch strenuously decorated-that great age when even ladies were upholstered...
...Duke of Westminster decided to sell 50 paintings from his famed collection. The event is to take place at Christie's in London early in July. The collection includes works of Murillo, Teniers, Cuyp, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, Wouwerman, Van Dyke, Rubens, Gainsborough, Velasquez, Brouwer, Turner. The two examples of Rubens are the Adoration of the Magi and The Fathers of the Church...