Word: stair
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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...
...Stair said that “there was absolutely no way...for any regional auction house to tell” if Kingsland’s belongings were stolen...
...Stair added that Kingsland’s paintings were not listed in the International Foundation for Art Research database, which tracks stolen work...
...dealer who had bought the paintings at the Kingsland auction was the first person to discover that one had been in the Harvard collections, Stair said. “He’s in part a hero,” Stair said of the dealer...