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...18th Century English school of painting which always commands good auction prices was this year's unquestioned leader. Top artist was Raeburn with John Lamont of Lamont which went from one anonymous collector to another for $29,000. Others of the school: a small full-length Gainsborough from Mrs. Reid's collection, $5.100; a Lawrence from the late Henry Seligman's collection, $19,000; a Hoppner, $12.500; Isabella, Lady Molyneux by Gainsborough, $10,000; a Romney, $16,000. Millet's The Knitting Lesson, once owned by the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, was sold to Manhattan...
...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Whitelaw Reid: a net estate of $18,589,916; mostly to her children, Lady Ward and Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. The estate included 16 automobiles, a $290,000 77-pearl necklace, a $15,000 Gainsborough, clothes valued at $50, a debt of $6,543 due from King Prajadhipok of Siam...
...week's auctions in which Raeburn was by far the most prized master was that, in spite of Depression or cooling taste, the 18th Century English school has slipped relatively little. Further significance was that Raeburn, who, along with Romney, was long considered a third to Reynolds and Gainsborough, is apparently drawing even with his more esteemed rivals...
...that you want to know anything about my trip?" Said Miss Gillespie's mother: "The incident is closed. . . . The incident is closed. . . . The incident is closed. . . ." At a Manhattan auction of the furnishings of the home of the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (New York Herald Tribune), a Gainsborough portrait brought $5,100, a pair of 16th Century Brussels tapestries, $8,000, the entire collection, $155,897.50. Following a threat on the life of Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor...
...Learned with dismay that doctors feared for the life of the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, 74-year-old Laborite "Old George" Lansbury who fell down the steps of Gainsborough Town Hall last week and broke his thigh...