E.G. Blee-Goldman
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Stopping at
@metmuseum
on the way to the airport (and before a meeting)...high risk of missing my flight 😅
Too much good stuff to see.
Now in the cab and back to work!
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Throwback Thursday: Jan de Beer, The Annunciation, sold for $1,215,000 in 2019
@ChristiesInc
In the von Sierstorpff family for many years.
67.9 x 52.4 cm
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I think I've read The Embarrassment of Riches by
@simon_schama
two or three times now. Amazingly perfect balance of academic exactness and readability.
If you haven't read it...go experience the best of the 90s this weekend!
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Let’s just be honest with ourselves…
Lluís Dalmau studied directly with Van Eyck in 1431.
He didn’t just “see” the paintings. Around ten years later he painted this masterpiece in Valencia.
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£340 a few minutes ago. Not perfect, but very charming and small.
Follower of Cornelius Johnson, Anglo-Dutch 1593-1661- Portrait of a gentleman wearing a ruff; oil on paper laid to card, feigned oval, 7.6 x 6.6 cm.
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Someone just arrived...
And he wants to kick the weekend off right.
Let's unbox this bad boy.
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WEEKEND EDITION – A Philadelphian Fantasy: let’s compare the Master and the Workshop in two versions of St. Francis by Jan van Eyck.
In my opinion the painting by St. Francis by van Eyck in Turin
@MuseiRealiTo
is the original by van Eyck himself. The copy on vellum in the
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"Bottega di Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Anversa 1639 - Parigi 1689)"
Sold today for €2,000
I think he has good vibes and really love the brush work.
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Did this ever resurface?
Sold for €410K on an estimate of €70-100K in November.
Attribué au Maître de la Légende de sainte Madeleine Actif à Bruxelles dans le dernier quart du XVe siècle
Portrait de Marie de Bourgogne ou La Madeleine
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An early morning defeat in the best city in Italy - Firenze.
This beautiful miniature, 7x6 cm is leaving with someone else. Very sensitively executed.
Her dress leads me to believe it is 1617-1623. Me pregunto si las joyas dicen algo. ¿
@Alafont2011
tiene alguna idea?
(My
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Dear Friends, it is with a heavy heart that I must reveal to you something very important:
While I love Flemish Primitives first and foremost, I have a crippling fish fascination.
Therefore, please congratulate me on restraining myself and NOT buying this for $800.
Tho, they
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Sold for €4,600 on Monday.
Did I make a mistake in not buying it?
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$2,200 to a bidder on the phone, from a Palm Beach estate.
Circle of Jan Cossiers (Flemish, 1600-1671)
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Sold for £10,000 moments ago at Sloane. My regret is high.
Cornelius Johnson (1593 - 1661)
Portrait of Frances Howard (later Carr), Countess of Somerset (1590 - 1632)
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"Hate buy" or "l'appel du vide"?
I bought it for €170 🫣
I try to stay disciplined, but this one was too odd and disgusting to let go 😂
Stay tuned for pics when he arrives!
Will he be better or worse in person?
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I believe the “Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon” may be John Peutin, the goldsmith from Bruges who made six silver cups for van Eyck as a gift from the Duke, or the goldsmith Michael Ravary, who van Eyck lived with for two years around 1426-1428 (although Paviot seems to
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Scuola fiamminga del XVII secolo - ritratto di dama con sontuosa gorgiera a dentelle
€17,000 at
@FarsettiArte
earlier today.
I can't seem to win anything these days 😮💨
Therefore, have a drink on me this weekend 🍾
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Does he not have such PRESENCE?
Sold for €1,900 as "Ecole Flamande, Suiveur De Rubens."
This is not a sleeper, but it has a fun, twisty story that might be worthwhile even if the buyer doesn't know it.
(also I think he just speaks so well that it doesn't matter) 👇
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WEEKEND EDITION: "The Miniature Portraits of Jan van Eyck"
There is no greater painter than van Eyck. It's easy to become entranced by the monumental perfection of his larger figures, but his genius extends to the extremely small scale as well (of course.)
This weekend I'm
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Throwback Thursday: that time Jan van Eyck accidentally had a panel burn in the sun, became livid, and developed his secret mix that made his paintings pop:
"This panel being done up, he [van Eyck] varnished it according to his new invention, and as he was now accustomed, and
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I was also tracking this...but one of those pieces that is so good, you don't even bother registering to bid 😂
For a long time I had trouble seeing the differentiating qualities in still life paintings. If you are like me and cloudy on the topic, please observe:
1. The
THE ART MARKET /// Today's Koller auction has already gotten as hot as it could be! My personal favourite, this remarkable Nicolaes van Verendael just sold for 260 000 CHF hammer price, against the 70 000 - 100 000 CHF estimate.
#OldMaster
#Auction
#art
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Accelerate AI Development: An Open Letter
I rarely write about topics that are personally important to me, but I feel extremely strongly about the near-term development of AI. There are two topics related to this that I have extremely high conviction about – the development of
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Avercamp for $36K whoa!
Provenance: Johanna Ransohoff
Family had a very nice collection, many pieces justifiably selling well.
See this all the time: good collections with a lot of goodies, bad collections almost never have any.
L'Automne sells for $150K later 😮
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I just let this go as the underbidder. Sold for $2,800.
It looks sweet! But there is a somewhat complicated story. Let's take a look 👇
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Besançon, n'étais-tu qu'un rêve ? Il est insensé qu'une si petite ville possède une telle magnificence, et que ses habitants soient également merveilleux... un mirage et une merveille, avec des maîtres anciens si remarquables qu'ils pourraient vous faire pleurer.
@KTonArt
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No ones going to post this (or did I miss it)?
Hammered for 30K today. Very nice 👍
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What a tiny piece from 1570 on parchment - 9.3 x 5.3cm
(Credit card for scale)
I wonder what he was thinking about on the day he was painted? And how was the weather?
Sold for €1,700 a few days ago in Italy.
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$4,250 just now. Jan Van den Hecke the Elder
Very nice one (I thought) look at that blue fruit. Fred G. Meijer confirmed.
Dutch, 1620-1684
Still Life of Flowers, Fruit, and a Roemer in a Monumental Architectural Setting
Oil on canvas
37 x 28 ¼ inches (95.5 x 72 cm)
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A testament to the lost art of connoisseurship 😯
This was bought 25 years ago by a friend. His greatest discovery. At the time he was ridiculed for believing this was the original, esp. by the Gentileschi expert K.C. from the MET. who btw is also resonsible for the new Prado Carravaggio. He died without ever been acknowledged.
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I usually don't post lots before auction, but a good cause (
@EddlemanQuantum
) and too wonderful not to mention: look at this fireplace with Lucretia 😍
Frames were also switched out with mirrors from time to time.
Even a glass for
@MTPenna
@dorotheum
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"Democritus", Jacob Toorenvliet (signed and dated upper left: J.Toorenvliet F. Ao. 1676), copper, 28.2 × 22.4 cm.
CHF 13K
Not a popular subject and the frame did not do it justice, but this was a very nice buy.
RKD: 240276
Well done buyer! 🙂
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Dear Friends!
The game is afoot...
@KTonArt
and I are in motion to visit rural France to investigate 🕵️♂️ an art mystery!
We'll be posting on this thread
#artmystery
on our trip, musings and the meaning of life (42.)
First up: off to Zurich!
I'll be completely honest with you
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I won the lot.
Once it arrives, off to the vault (aka my walls.)
Look for this one in 50 years when I'm dead and my heirs sell it off! 😘
Let me be clear: dear friends, if you are looking at the lot next Wednesday, I am going quite heavy.
I don't anticipate losing again.
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Throwback Thursday: Albert Bouts and Workshop
Triptych wings - The Baptism of Christ, and Christ and the Woman of Samaria
77.8 x 21.7 cm
Unsold in 2007 at a £30-50K estimate
(never resurfaced?)
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At Cabral Moncada Leilões today:
€72K and €120K
First: not 19th c. (listed like that)
Second closer description: This is, according to Dagoberto Markl's proposal, the picture before which Damião de Gois used to pray [1502-1574] and which is described in a poem by humanist
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Dear Sir or Madam, this is completely incorrect. You have combined the Annunciation with the Hermits panel from the Ghent Altarpiece.
Why post a false image?
Detail from Annunciation, Jan van Eyck, ca. 1434-1436.
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Even better than yesterday's portrait...
Sold today for €17K. Seems like a good price. A little bit of gamesmanship on the bidding strategy here.
"Flemish school: Portrait of a nobleman, oil on canvas, 17th C."
🤴🍊?
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Circle of Joos van Cleve, earlier today for 7,500.
Held in the von Bethmann family for many years.
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$1,200, last Wednesday. Filed under "Stern Calvanistic Women That Would Make Me Feel Guilty for Not Working Harder" (if I had bought it)
Inscribed on the lower left: "Aetatis 61/1683/ M: Hethe/fecit"
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$332K finish, my oh my.
er, dear European (I assume) friends...
You are all supposed to be in Ibiza right now I thought? 😑
Archduke Leopold Salvator (our ultimus dominus insignis et maxime memorabilis) would have been more appropriately focused on leisure.
Nonetheless, in proper sporting manner, I
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'round these parts we save Wednesdays for being the third underbidder on this sort of thing.
Pieter Nason, Portrait of gentleman, 87 x 68 cm
Lace work: ✅
Hands: ✅
Face: ✅
€11K HP at Nagel today.
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Maestro De Huesca, "San Blas en Prisión", 84 x 66cm
€20K today
@AnsorenaArte
He helped a woman whose pig was stolen by a wolf by commanding the wolf to return it unharmed.
The pig doesn't seem to have ended up in an enviable position, however.
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Didn't bid because I was sure it would go above 50K.
Typical!
Nice "circle of" Dirk Bouts, sold just now for 32000 Euro against a 12000 Euro estimate
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Previously seen in 1985 as "Alexander Adriaenssen - A Fish Still Life" 🤔🤔🤔😂
Sold for €8K last month as "École flamande 17e.
Huile sur panneau (parqueté): Nature morte à la table dressée. Attribuée à Jacob van Es, ancienne attribution à Floris Gerritsz Van Schooten."
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Character Labs is Open!
(I know most of you are here for the art posts, see the end of post please.)
We are living in the most interesting time ever for building software.
@jakek
,
@jazer
, and I want to work with you
@CharacterVC
during the earliest part of your journey.
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The memory of a lot sometimes springs to mind, and on a second look, it's nicer than you thought.
Dutch school, 17th century
Sold for €2,600
It bears an inscribed mark "FH" on the verso
But where did I see it? 🧐
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Dear friends: a humble request to find this princesse lointaine for me. I wish to buy the piece so that her eyes would look upon me everyday.
Last seen in 1991. DM or call if you have leads.
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This sold for £1,900 today.
Did the buyer make a good decision?
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I got that lizard fever🕺🦎...$16K hammer in New Orleans for a piece attributed to Otto Marseus Van Schrieck (1613-1678).
He was known as the "snuffelaer" for poking about forests for flora & fauna.
The estimate for this was $1.0K-1.5K.
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On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadn’t ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.
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Throwback Thursday: after Jan Gossart, “Danae receiving Jupiter in the guise of a shower of gold”
According to Friedländer: “'A fine old copy.”
Last seen in 1926 at Gaston Neumans’ gallery.
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WEEKEND EDITION: A VISUAL FEAST BY BRUEGHEL THE ELDER
This weekend I am going to highlight two fabulous lots that sold at Setdart a few weeks ago as attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder.
We're going to look at:
1⃣ The "Allegory of the sense of sight" (58.5 x 90 cm) which made
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Sort of a discount Rembrandt (Rubens?) feel 😉
Sold for €11,000
@setdart
last month. Nice painting!
Aert Jansz Marienhof, "Diogenes and Alexander" ~1640-50s
This painting captures a significant moment in history: the meeting (perhaps apocryphal) of Alexander the Great and the
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So why is this lot having trouble selling?
Ideas?
I’m genuinely not certain.
Attributed to Pieter CLAEISSENS le Vieux
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I'm in Venice, it's raining, the hotel doesn't really want us here, and I'm on the wire bidding.
Congratulations dear over bidder, it's yours.
@JorgenWadum
please see the panel mark for your records.
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Sold for $18,000 earlier today in Florida.
After Hans Memling (on canvas)
It bears the seal mark of a court supplier on the verso - H.W. Röhlich - Berlin.
Perhaps a WWII-era replica?
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🎶 it's the time of the season for pictures...
"What's your name" 🎶
Scuola fiamminga del XVII secolo Giudizio Universale 😉
"Whose your [artistic] daddy" 🎶
I had two ideas 🧐
"Was the winning
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Floating around for a few years now, this poor guy finally found a new home for €750 today. Seems like a fine price for whoever bought it!
Attributed to Peter Franchoys
Portrait of man with the coat of arms of the family Estrix de Terbeeck in a wreath of foliage
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Ludovico Portinari, before 1469 by the Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula
Ludovico's uncle (?) Tommasso commissioned the Portinari Altarpiece at the Uffizi. (And totally would have hated Basel III after overextending the Medicis for Charles the Bold...)
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er, dear European (I assume) friends...
You are all supposed to be in Ibiza right now I thought? 😑
Archduke Leopold Salvator (our ultimus dominus insignis et maxime memorabilis) would have been more appropriately focused on leisure.
Nonetheless, in proper sporting manner, I
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Throwback Thursday: this drawing (1st photo) was attributed to the hand of Albrecht Dürer when it was last seen in 1913.
At the time the sitter was thought to be Hans Frei, but I think it actually might be Hieronymus Bosch. See reference portraits of Bosch in the Recueil
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How about them gourds?
Sold for $1,800, listed as "Dutch School (17th century), Still Life with Walnuts and Gourds"
Bearing a signature that appears to read Juan van der Hamen, 1622 🤔
Nice walnuts though.
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Jacob van der Kerckhoven, still life with pumpkins and doves
60 x 75 cm, canvas
Sold for €2,700
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Crajetzt or Cranach? (Sorry…)
Workshop of Lucas Cranach, circa 1532.
Emperor Charles V, hammered for €12,000
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I have now in my possession embargoed CONTRABAND of the highest importance, namely two copies of "The Invention of British Art" by
@arthistorynews
Obviously I can't say anything about the contents...but I wouldn't miss
@wellslitfest
next Monday!
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This delicate miniature executed on tortoiseshell is of Saint Lawrence being burned by flames.
It is a 17th century work by a Flemish artist.
It's only 10x10cm!! (3.9in)
I LOVE these unusual painting supports.
Some sharp eyed buyer got it for €2,250 👏
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Sigh...she's quite good. I didn't even spot the lot.
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Throwback Thursday: Portrait of Empress Isabella of Portugal (1503-1539)
First seen in Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Baryatinsky's collection, last sold in 2021 for $189K.
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Am I missing something? These seem like an absolute deal for €7K a pop a few days ago.. (Although I assume they'll never be able to leave Spain.)
Ignacio de Ríes (Seville, ca. 1616 - ?, 1670), Saint Bartholomew and James the Less.
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"Flemish Master, around 1600 Allegory of the divine judgement"
Sold for €3.8K yesterday in Prague.
Do you know who painted the original piece? 😉
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Two quasi decorative+ pieces. Which do you prefer?
A: Previously listed as Frans Snyders, didn't sell for a few years then made €9,500 Flemish School (Circa 1650)
Best part to me: the veg!
B: Attributed to Jan van Bijlert and made €4,500
Best part to me: the lute!
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And sold for 50,000 CHF. Not a surprise given the quality. Fight from an online bidder and a bidder in the room.🙌
Hard to find a better painting for this kind of money. Est. 7000 CHF (about the same in €, £ or $) for a c. 1550 workshop of Cornelis van Cleve oil on panel.
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Alright that's it. It's SETTLED. We're doing it.
We'll see you starting in Zurich next Thursday. 🇨🇭
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Throwback Thursday: Abraham de Vries, "Portrait of a gentleman, in a black hat and jacket with a white ruff collar"
Signed and dated 'A. DE VRIES AO 1630' (center right)
$56.4K in 2000 at Christie's.
Purchased and then offered by Koetser in Zurich in 2001.
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Sold in Ghent today for 800.
VLAANDEREN – 16°/17° EEUW olieverfschilderij op paneel : “Dame met molenkraag” – 63 x 49
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While we're on the topic, as you probably know
@arthistorynews
has a book coming out in October!
Very excited to read The Invention of British Art.
(Yes, I bought two...one for me and one to give to a friend)
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This charming, though age-worn, piece is attributed to Vecchietta (Sienese, d. 1480.)
Here we see Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) caring for the sick.
Not a sleeper IMO due to condition. 3-5K estimate.
I still like it 😍
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Happy Easter! No one does it better than van Eyck (and workshop)...
Aside from his technical mastery the painting has a number of ideological call outs associated with the crucifixion. (Apologies in advance for the ones I get wrong because I am away from home.)
👇
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Old Masters are great because you don't need special expertise to know what's "good."
Compare it with modern or contemporary art...so much conceptual garbage with no technical talent.
$38.7M for the right 🤨
No wonder people are skeptical of art.
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Throwback Thursday: $25K in 2008.
Portrait of a man, bust-length, in a green and black shirt and green cap
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James Gillray, "Fatigues of the Campaign in Flanders, H. Humphrey, May 20th 1793"
Sold today for £540 (not to me 🫥)
Love this sort of pre-Punch stuff.
The Duke of York is getting some heat here for living too well in the field rather than defending Holland from Napoleon.
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