Material concerning pictures sold at auction, 10 July 1914

This material is held atPaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

  • Reference
    • GB 3010 WR/494
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1914-1919
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 3 newspaper cuttings; 1 cutting; 1 publication extract; 1 letter; 2 notes

Scope and Content

Includes:

-two newspaper cuttings concerning the prices of pictures sold at auction, 10 July 1914, including a painting of A Woman Weeping catalogued as School of Rembrandt

-newspaper cutting concerning a Landscape by Gainsborough bought for the Worcester Art Museum

-cutting concerning portraits of Peter Heiman and his wife Sibilla Kesel by Barthold Bruyn, bought by Mr Mortimer L Schiff

-note concerning lot 19 in the auction sale held on 10 July 1914

-note concerning lot 146 in the auction sale held on 10 July 1914

-extract from Art Prices Current 1913-1914, edited by G Ingram Smyth, 1914, p.501-508

-letter from Arthur J Sulley, Sulley & Company, dated 14 July 1914, concerning a painting by Lawrence, probably lot 118 in the auction sale held on 10 July 1914

8 items pasted into: Christie, Manson & Woods (1914) Old pictures and drawings. [Auction catalogue] London: Christie, Manson & Woods.

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