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...after the late Sir John Dewar bought Raeburn's sturdy Highland portrait The M'Nab for ?25.410, his canny Scot mind was beset by doubts concerning his investment. To bolster its value he decided to use reproductions of the famed picture on advertisements of his famed whiskey. The M'Nab now hangs in the Dewar London Office, is occasionally shown to the public...
Last week. Lord Dewar's nephew, John Arthur Dewar, who inherited his wealth, proved himself also his uncle's heir in the matter of Raeburns. At a Christie's auction in London he bid ?11,025 ($56,337.75) for a Raeburn portrait of two young brothers named Allen. Another, lesser Raeburn was sold in 30 seconds also to Mr. Dewar, for ?4,620 ($23,608.20). A Romney went for $25.217.85. The Raeburn portrait of the Allen brothers brought the top price in London's biggest art sale since Depression...
Same day. in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries Raeburn's John Lamont of Lamont, once the property of the late Judge Elbert H. Gary, was auctioned for $29,000 to an anonymous Pennsylvania collector...
...hiding. Veering public taste does the same thing. Both these influences have lately been at work on the 18th Century English portraitists, examples of whose work have for a century been considered de rigueur in any No. 1 private collection. Significance of last 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...
...Bermuda, achieves regeneration. On board, he prevents a young woman (Barbara Robbins), pregnant and unmarried, from tossing herself overboard. In the next scene he has married her and they are living in a penthouse with the young man's chatty but devoted mother (Spring Byington). Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle. Visits from her relatives and his predecessor help both cravings to be satisfied but by the time the play ends the Raeburns are on the way to better things. He knows that there will...