Millard County Chronicle | 1911-11-16 | Page 1 | [Untitled]

Th Collector. The late Edwin A Abbey bad no sympathy with thoso American mil llonalres w ho pay 14 'O.OOO or $.".00,000 for a doubtful Rembrandt or an Imputed Im-puted Frugonard. while painters of genius In their own towns are starv Ing for lark of orders Mr Abbey, at a dinner at his London Lon-don residence In Tlte street, said last year, apropos of the purchase by New Yorker of a doubtful Titian at an Inflated price: "Thla typo of man I nows nothing abo.'i irt. A man of this type, when Wlfr'ler was not yet famous, wanted his wife's portrait done "'How much will you charge me Mr WhM'rr.' le said 'for a llfeslze (Mere of the mndnT.?' "'My prbe.' Hld Whf'tler, 'will be tinm "The mlllicr.alre took up his hat and ftl'-k "'Why.' he rnortrd. turning to go oii ejperf to be paid for your work If you had been dead 400 or t00 , ye:.r" "