| Show PRICES FOR FOiL OLD it MASTERS Very V ry Few Paintings Which Have flave flaveS Reached Beached F ur Figur S S S tiC f Art Since the Dudley sale ale 01 o 1802 Idl 18 ho nd 1 really choice collection of oC old masters has hascom come com under the hammer in this bis country and the prices paid for the few lei isolated examples been n for sale would seem t to te indicate Indic te that tl tHe Ti taste for tor this class of composition is not What hat it once was Va s This Title Is perhaps inconclusive incon evidence as to a decline in taste for an Indifferent specimen gains I as largely large IY by being sold sob in such a col collection collection lection as the Dudley as It loses lo s by be being being j ing sandwiched between a medley of the old and a Hl the new I Very few fw of or the old masters have during ls reached four lour figures The most important of all aU was the splendid I Rembrandt Hembra n dt portrait of Nicholas Ruts which in the Ruston sale brought guineas or guineas more than I were realized at art the Adrian Hope sale four years ears before A Rubens Repose of the Holy Family on June 25 2 sold for 1300 guineas Sir John Mullets po poetical poetical poetical examples of Van Dyck Time Clipping the Wings of Love Loye sold for tor SIO guineas guinea or nearly four times the price at tt which schick it was WitS acquired at the Blenheim sale salem in 1835 but the fact tact that i it Was as a a great favorite favor ite of the late tate P F FR PR R B A and aud a d that tha it was accompanied by bya bya bya a sort of written guarantee from his hand gave it an interest and importance tance tancO tan which it might not otherwise have bave had inid I The Huston sale included an example of Van Dyck also alao from teens the Blenheim I collection colle Uon a Virgin Child which sold j I for IWU guineas or just double the amount it fetched In 1866 1 There were also two Van r Dycks in the highly in ih j series serle of family portraits from I Bilton Hall Hadl sold June 25 5 formerly the I j residence of Joseph Addison and his I i wife the Countess Co of f Warwick these I portraits are ate said to have been brought to Bilton Hilton Hall from Holland House Hou HouI and these st were whole Who Ie lengths of Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice his youn younger younger I ger gee brother brot er and they realized gui gul guineas and anc 5 guineas guin respectively |
