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Died. Esme Howard, 22, eldest son of the Right Honorable Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; in London; after an illness of several years' duration. The Ambassador, one of the most respected and popular in the diplomatic corps at Washington, returned to England a month ago when his son's condition appeared critical and was with him when he died...
...Marino, Calif., fortnight ago, was Sir Joseph Duveen, semi-Semitic, ornate dealer and author ity in Art. In San Marino lives Maecenas Henry Edwards Huntington (TIME, Nov. 8). Sir Joseph was visiting Maecenas Huntington. When he left (for Manhattan, where his chief gallery is located), announcement was gently allowed to be made that Maecenas Huntington had acquired of Sir Joseph three more 18th Century British portraits-a Gainsborough ("The Hon. Mrs. Henry Fane"), a Reynolds ("The Hon. Lavinia Bingham, Countess Spencer"), a Romney ("Lady Hamilton"). Which Lady Hamilton portrait by Romney was not specified (Romney did 30 of this...
Last week occurred once more a far-heralded London sale, one of those dispersals of private collections of British nobility so frequent since the War, one of those sales through which Sir Joseph Duveen and others have acquired and brought to the U. S. a rather deep skimming of the cream of British art. Captain Jefferson Cohn, rich turfman (TIME, Nov. 29) had bought the house, but not the famed art collection therein, of Dowager Baroness Michelham, the house once home of the spidery-signatured Marquis of Salisbury, Britain's onetime most aristocratic Premier. The Dowager Baroness Michelham...
...second day was the one of thrills. Then it was that some score of master canvases, mainly from the expensive 18th Century so favored by Maecenas Huntington, were sold. And chief among these was Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie," which brought the record auction price to date, $370,000. "Pinkie" is regarded as Lawrence's best work in his early debonair manner, that manner of captivating, almost too facile grace which made him adored of the great ladies of his day and keeps him popular since. "Pinkie" went-to Sir Joseph Duveen. "Pinkie," who was none other than...
...second most interesting sale (also to Sir Joseph) was a Gains borough portrait, "Miss Tatton," $231,000, for 30 x 25 inches of Gainsborough's best-Gainsborough who alone of the 18th Cen tury British school put into his work some degree of the character behind the face. There is on record a conversation between Thomas Gainsborough and his Majesty, George...