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...painted to please his patrons, to make a living. He still pleases the patrons of Sir Joseph Duveen, and the sale of one of his portraits makes the living of a dozen dealers. In his lifetime he had one enemy -Reynolds. He had no rivals. Sir Joshua and Gainsborough were his superiors; they never stooped to rival him, Yet secretly they envied, even then, his popularity. Sir Joshua in his later period (he was eight years older than Romney) would not speak of him by name. He said, "The Man in Cavendish Square. . . ." Romney never retaliated by branding Reynolds...
Pictures. Gainsborough's portrait of a young girl in a blue dress with flowers in her hands, flowers in her lap, and a face like a dim sleepy flower, was started at $1,500, raised by three bidders in fast cuts to $20,000, bought by Messrs. Scott & Fowls, dealers. Four more Gainsboroughs were sold for a total of $7,900. Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts paid $31,000 for a picture of a girl and some red herrings by Millais.* Goya's portrait of Pepe Illo, a bullfighter of Madrid, brought $25,000. On the third...
Part of the $3,000,000 collection of the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana was willed to the Metropolitan Museum, or, as an alternate, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Part, including Rubens' "Magdalene," Gainsborough's "Covered Wagon," Rembrandt's "Woman with a Fan," was left to his heirs. Last week the legatees announced that they would sell their share at auction in January in Manhattan...
...strength and treasure? A steam of tears rose from a dozen editorial pages. With the lamentable psychology of one who does not count his chickens until they have been run over, the press pointed out that Leverhulme's collection included two paintings by Rembrandt, several by Frans Hals, Gainsborough's portrait of Squire Nuttall, Reynolds' "Countess of Thanet" and "Venus," Sir Martin Shee's "Boys of the Annesley Family," not to mention numerous Turners, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences...
...American rate of bidding. The Wright plane may form the nucleus of a collection of commercial masterpieces, and if the National Museum of Engineering, through its secretary, urges that it is distinctively American, and hence should remain here, the English can reply that then the products of Reynolds and Gainsborough do not belong in America...