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...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's John Levy Galleries for $16,000-highest price for any French work. A Greuze self-portrait brought...
Other U. S. owners of Hoppner-painted children: Banker John Pierpont Morgan; Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis; Sportsman-Financier Joseph E. Widener; Pittsburgh Banker William Larimer Mellon...
...Lament's Hoppner...
...little maids in flaring bright dresses, a golden-banged boy in absurdly small trousers?the Sackville children played on the greensward around their great ancestral Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent.* There John Hoppner painted their portrait, a distinguished, worldly man who found innocence a better subject than sophistication. In 1797 his picture was finished, hung in Knole House. It has been there ever since...
...portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming portrait, Mary Anne, Lady Dashwood-King...