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...Honorable George Lambton, fifth son of the Earl of Durham and trainer of the Earl of Derby's horses, was "frightfully annoyed" last week. He summoned the Press to explain his annoyance. One of the Honorable George's charges, a horse by the name of Caerleon, had just won the Eclipse Stakes. That in itself was all right. But Caerleon has raced frequently this summer-in the Jubilee Stakes and during Ascot week-and not only failed to place but showed such bad form that he went to the post for the Eclipse Stakes quoted...
...portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland (owned by the King), Lawrence's Lord Lyndoch, two of Lord Ellesmere's Raphaels, or Rembrandt's Rabbi in a Chair. One picture which might well have, been included but evidently was not is Sir Thomas Lawrence's Master Lambton...
...announced last week that Master Lambton would be sold to an unnamed Manhattan dealer or collector. The present owner, the Earl of Durham, last August refused $750,000 for the same picture. It was learned that the price now would be $1,000,000. A reason for the deal was surmised: The third Earl of Durham died 16 months ago. His twin, the fourth Earl of Durham, died a year ago. Inheritance taxes subtracted $4,500,000 from the value of the Durham estate, now estimated...
...Master Lambton is "The Red Boy," a quaint and pensive child in red velvet seated on a rock overlooking a? landscape of transparent gloom. Master Lambton was the eldest son of the first Earl of Durham; he died in 1831 at the age of 14. His father paid Sir Thomas Lawrence a little more than $3,000 for his portrait...
Died. The Earl of Durham, 74, famed English turfman, huntsman, landowner (30,000 acres); of influenza; in his ancestral Lambton Castle, Durham, England. He had held his title only five months, having succeeded his twin brother...