Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-17
OFFER OF $500,000
Lord LansdoWne Decides to
Sell Noted Painting.
WANTED BY HENRY FRICK
Many Other Famous Cauvases Dis
posed of to Americans.
SALE MADE BY LORD SACKvILLE
Receives $500, 900 for Gainsborough's
Small Portrait Group of Eliza
and Thomas Linley.
WANTED BY HENRY Prick
SALE MADE BY LORD sACKv1LLE
oreisn Correspondence Of The Star.

| L orelsn Core spondcnce Of The Star
! LONDON, March 6. 1911.
The determination of Lord I.ansdowne
ITO part with the most impressive land
scape in the whole range of western art.
! Rembrandt's Mill on the Ramparts
coupled with the announcement that he
| has been offered for it 100000 Oh behalf
! of Henry F'rick, raised afresh and in most
acute form the question whether the chief
pictorial treasures in British private gal
! leries can Or cannot be retained in this
country. Moreover. it has just been made
known that Lord Sackvile has sold from
| knole Castle celebrated Gainsborough,
and that superb Velasquez. which was
TO have been exhibited in Bond street.
has been annexed by the inevitable
American.
J A couple of years ago there was conf
piled and published long list of pic
| torial masterpieces which have of late
| passed out of British collections to Amer
! lea and the continent. That list included
| representative works by artists of ac-
knowledged power. belonging to various
| times and countries. A signal loss was
| the priceless series Of drawings by Botti-
| cell. illustrating the Divine Comedy,
| formerly at Hamilton Palace. now one of
| the outstanding features of the print
| room at Berlin.
Goes to German Museum.
The Kaiser Frederick Museum, to take
a. few instances almost at random, has
acquired the -Four Saints by Masaccio;
| Fra Angelico's Last Judgment" the
| most important example outside Florence;
a beautiful profile portrait. probably by
| Fiero Della Francesca; Giorgione's lovely
| picture of young man, offered by Or.
fn6 Cav 6n a.
| Gallery: Luca Signorelli's Pan Listening
| to the Voice Of Nature refused by the
National Gallery on the ground of the
nakedness of the figures; Rembrandt
| Joseph and Potiphar'S Wife and
Renter Anslos Consoling the Widow"
Van Dyck's companion portraits of a
Genoese patrician and his wife. allowed
| to. go in the sale of the Peel heirlooms
| In 1900 for $121, $50, but now worth more
! than $4,000; the famous Holbein that
belonged to Sir John Millais, and the ex-
| quisite Vermeer from the Francis Hope
| collection.
| The drain toward America has, during
! the last few years, increased In volume
| and Importance. In 1909 Mr.. Huntington
acquired from Col. Holford for about
100000 Velasquez's life-sized portrait OF
| Count Olivares. exhibited at the Guild
| Hall in 1901. In 1903 III. c. Frick bought
| from Lord Leicester for nearly 5000
| Rembrandt's profoundly revealing SELF
| portrait Of 1858.
Bought by Charles Taft.
A similar amount is said quite recently
| to have been paid by Charles Taft for the
! Pourtaie's portrait of a cavalier in black
! dress. which made 81, $50 at the Ashburn-
1 ham sale OF 1850 In 1910 Otto Kahn &C
quired for $4,000, which is so far the
maximum price for single picture, the
| family group by Halls, which, until l9O6.
| hung in an ill-lighted upper landing IN
| Col Wardes house at Westerhan. Inose
| Of Mrs. Jack" Gardeners wonderful col
| lection at Boston. L. S. A., are aware or
| the number and esthetic worth OF the
works which at a signal from her nave
| crossed the Atlantic from this country.
Again the Hudson Fulton exhibition,
held in New York in 1909, demonstrated
| in an unmistakable way to tho exodus
| that is going on. Rembrandts freely
| classicised portrait OF a Polish rider
paused for few weeks only in London
| last year, where it was admirably copied
| by Ambrose MEroy. and the Gallc1an
vendors might, it would seem. have OBJ
tanned $4,000 for it almost as easily as
Similarly PHYLLIS wMlesqyez ., s snase-
| painted at Fraga and discovered recent
ly in Austria, was sent by Messrs. Ag-
new to America and, according to a New
York telegram, has been bought by MT
E'rick for about $3WWU.
Nothing Inviolate.
AS Mr.. Balfour and Lewis Harcourt
realized when they spoke at the opening
of the national loan exhibition, nothing
seems to be safe from deportation. Eng
lish art lovers next fear that they may
hear that Van Dycks sumptuous group
| Of the Balbi children. now on loan in the
National Gallery, is on offer or actually
| disposed Of.
The announcement is made that Lord
Sackville has sold for S2OO,OOO Gainsbor-
ough's small portrait group OF Eliza and
Thomas Lnley. painted at Bath In l76S
The picture is now in London. but how
long it will remain in this country is. to
say the least, problematical. Although
not of equal Importance with the DulWich
group Of the Misses Linley, OF with the
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures Lnley mar
ried Richard Brinsley Sheridan-belong-
ing to Lord Rothschild. ii ranks as one
of the loveliest Gainsboroushs of the
Bath period 1t is worth while recalling
that bust portrait of the same sitter
was inconspicuously catalogued and hung
at Christie's in 1868. The canvas had q
small hole through it and was dirty
| Bidding began at 81 .OGD, but in the end
| Charles Wertheimer had to pay $4,000
| for the portrait.