Art sales. A history of sales of pictures and other works of art. With notices of the collections sold, names of owners, titles of pictures, prices and purchasers, arranged under the artists of the different schools in order of date. Including the purchases and prices of pictures for the National Gallery. Illustrated with autotypes from small sketches of great pictures & water-colour drawings sold, portraits of eminent collectors and views of their residences, objects of ornamental art, &c., &c (1888)
Redford, George · London [Bradbury, Agnew, & co., printers, the "Whitefriars" press] · leaf 408
naro, according to the received date of his birth (1548), and in 1577 he was settled at Toledo at work upon his great picture in the Cathedral, “The Parting of Christ’s Raiment.” When the picture was knocked down at 320 guineas it was announced that it was bought for the National Gallery. The… … Fig. 3.— A LAUGHING- BOY; OR. BOY WITH A HORNBOOK, By Leonardo da Vinci. 1S£ x 13. to in the National Gallery catalogue, and he hoped that, as the late Sir Charles Eastlake, when Director of the Gallery, had bid for the portrait by Antonello (then purchased against him by the Louvre), this would be…
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