The evening world., 1911-06-24
M0RGANPA|NT|NG
AR|NGER,' LONDON
! PAPER DECLARES
Gainsborough's Famous Ouch
eSS of DevonShire Not the
Real Thing, 1t Is Said.

II II merely q question of art be-
tween J. P%ierpont Morgan and the late
Pat sheedy. The two distinguished
American connolsseurs have the buck
passed %squarely up TO them by the dear
old London Mail. II the banker and
head OF the Money Trust doesn't own
the original and genuine Gainsborough
portrait OF the Duchess of Devonshire.
then sheedy did not expiate the crime
Of '7s. and Adam Worth. gambler and
bunko man. put one over on the King
Of Wall Street.
The crime OF IS. which closely fol-
lowed the great American crime OF 10.
consisted OF the stealing Of the picture
from the Agnew Gallery In London.
Agncw paid abou, $4,000 In real money
for tho canvas under the idea thu 1t
represented Georgiana, the first vile Of
the NTH Duke of Devonshlre.
The picture was painted In 1893 when
paint and frames cost a little more than
they do now. and there was a long and
touching story of how Gainsborough
had wished to keep the picture and
exhibit It. and how his wishes had been
thwarted SO that he had to hurriedly
sketch a copy. Then he didn't have
dine to paint the copy n Sir Thomas
Lawrence came along and subbed on
the Job and u replica was produced
through this division of genius.
MORGAN HAS COPY AND NOT
oEoR0iANA AT THAT.
According to the Mail. Mr.. Morgan
new owns, via Adam Worth and Pat
Ohsedy. the copy, n 1t Isn't even n
picture OF Georgiana at all, but a picture
q Elizabeth. the Dukes second wife.
IT'S a horrible thing in art when n
ehsrIshes the delusion that one has u
genuine 0ainsborough OF the hrst and
ranking wife Of a duke to wake up and
And nj that II isn't Georgle but Lizzie
Who frowns among the runs n under
the circus tent hat and that Lizzie was
merely q matrimonial after-thought-a
second edition OF ducal favor. And then
re much worse when one finds that one
has merely a replica Of a picture OF a
second edition wife.
10 that Is where the world OF art
hanss trembling on Its pegs. while the
a~nternetional question Ponds as to
whether Adam Worth bunked Pa,
Ohscdy with a fake original picture
thai Pat restored TO the Agnews. and
xhich tho Agnews sold for a pretty
suu 10 the American Last Gasp In cap
1aaIixed art.
After the picture was stolen from
the Asnew galleries the house called
A. nfIu BinLaFfnn WIN pAt IA bpnah
that Adam Worth. famous as a crool
OF nils time, knew where the pictur,
vas. Sheedy knew Worth all right
70 the picture came back In 1901.
According 10 Sheedy he wa standin,
IN Constantinople one day wonderinl
how much a good Tammany man coul
make at 81 a head II he had the 10.
of ofiicial dog catcher In the Mosl.n
lawn. wlen along comes a Greek. Pa
hadn't heard any OF that gum abou
fearing the Greeks whe they cam,
bearing SITS, sc he hearkened to IN,
stranger.
PURCHASER GAVE CORNER LOT
PRICE FOR PICTURE.
oaid Greek told him. In purest Greek
which Pat spoke like a native OF tn,
old Fourteenth Ward. that Worth hs,
been In captiv'ty-the same being III,
Turkish and Greek for doing a bit-iI
Turkey and that he was down to III,
very cloth upon which the Gainsbor
ouOh was painted.
Whereupon Pat staked Worth TO
oeest TO Paris and they put heads to
Ooeher and raked up the picture whici
III tipped on to Billy Pinkerton anc
~ passed along to Anew. 30 tn
OBSCURE got home. Then along cam,
Morgan with a burning desire to corne
~ Of the ancient pictures In the worl'