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Show PAINTING OF GREAT VALUE. Old Canvas, the Work of Galnibor-ouah, Galnibor-ouah, Brines Small Fortune. The other day In London there was put up for Bale in an art room a portrait por-trait of a lady In a white muslin dress with yellow trimming, by Gain borough, on canvas, 30 by 25 Inches, an awful looking wreck, covered with dirty varnish and having two largo holes In tho canvas as unprepossessing unprepossess-ing an object as ever como out of a ragand-bono Bhop. This picture, the property of an old lady at Worthing, had been hawked about for some time, the owner being anxious to rcallzo $25 on It, but no ono apparently apparent-ly wanted It, and It was taken to the art room, where its merits were discovered. dis-covered. When put up for sale it started ot $1,000, which in a couple of seconds had reached $25,000 and In less than a minute It was knocked down to a purchaser for $45,000. |