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Last week, auction house Stair Galleries halted the sale of pieces from Kingsland’s collection when they were discovered to be stolen. Harvard confirmed that two paintings from Stair—one of which is a portrait by John Singleton Copley—were stolen from the University’s collections more than three decades...
...other Stair collection portrait shows Kirkland in ministerial garb and is either a copy or an original painting by famed early American artist Gilbert Stuart...
Harvard has not yet confirmed the authenticity of the Kirkland portrait, which was a part of the University’s collections in the 1960s...
Emory University art historian Dorinda Evans, author of “The Genius of Gilbert Stuart,” believes the Harvard portrait is a cropped copy of an original Stuart rendering—though other experts are less sure...
...flesh coloring and the size are odd for Stuart and the whole expression of the portrait is different from that of the Stuart original,” Evans wrote in an e-mail...