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Days with Velázquez: when Charles Lewis Hind bought the ‘Rokeby Venus’ for Lockett Agnew
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 358–367
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Pezzini, Barbara (Pezzini, Barbara)
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30. The toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus'), by Diego Velázquez. 1647-51 (National Gallery, London)
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31. Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo, by Titian. c.1510 (National Gallery, London)
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33. Agnew's daybook, opened to show the entry on 'Venus and Cupid', dated 14th March 1906, with the stock number of the painting (1714) noted and initialled W.L.A. [William Lockett Agnew]. (National Gallery Archive, London)
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34. Charles Lewis Hind, by Emil Otto Hoppé. c.1920. Photograph in C.L. Hind: Naphtali, London, 1926
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36. Agnew's stock book entry for the sale of the Rokeby Venus, in which purchase price and 'service charges' are given in code ('melee' = £30,000, 'ueee' = £2,000). (National Gallery Archive, London)
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32. 'Venus and Cupid. Foreign bids for the famous picture', newspaper cutting from the Evening Standard of 7th December 1905 (National Gallery Archive, London)
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35. The sitting room at Rokeby Park, Yorkshire, showing the Venus, 1905. Photograph reproduced from The Pall Mall Magazine (October 1905), p.421
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37. Lockett Agnew, c.1912 (National Gallery Archive, London)
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38. The Rokeby Venus in an advertisement in The Burlington Magazine 8 (March 1906), p.ix
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39. 'The Rokeby Velasquez Official Announcement'. Newspaper cutting from The Westminster Gazette of 24th January 1906 (National Gallery Archive, London)
Advertisements
Advertisements January 1948 (front)
01/1948 | 538 | 90
Pages: i-xii
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Illustrations
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[C. T. Loo & Co., New York, 41 East 57th Street, Paris, 48 Rue de Courcelles] Bronze Vessel. Hu Late Chou Grey Green Patina Height, 16½ Inches
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[Christie's, Manson & Woods, LTD. Spencer House, St. James Place, SW1] A Pair of Charles II Flagons 10½ ins. High 1665-Maker's Mark an Escallop with Estoile above (Weight 80 oz. 16 dwt.)
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[Christie's, Manson & Woods, LTD. Spencer House, St. James Place, SW1] A Set of Three George II Casters 6½ ins. and 7 3/4 ins. High-by Charles Kandler, 1734 (Weight 36 oz. 13 dwt.)
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[F. A. Drey, 32 St. James's St., London, SW1] Portrait of Emperor Maximilian By the Master of Frankfurt. Panel, 12½ × 9 3/4 Ins. Flemish, ca. 1520.
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[Frank Partridge & Sons LTD, London, 145,146 New Bond Street, W1] A Set of Five Blue and White Vases with Covers. Kang H'si.
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[Leger Galleries, 13 Old Bond Street, London, W.1] Arabian Desert Scene Watercolour by J. F. Lewis, R. A., 1805-1876 From the Collection of Lord Airedale. Size 14 × 19 Inches
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[Leggatt Brothers, 30 St. James Street, London, SW1] The Building of Westminster Bridge. A. Canaletto. Canvas 19 × 32 Inches
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[P & D Colnaghi, 14 Old Bond Street, London W1] Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) Canvas 26¼ × 18 3/4 Inches From the Lowther Castle Collection
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[Sotheby’s & Co., 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W.1] Sale January 29th/30th. A Neolithic Vase from Kansu. 12¼ in. High
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[Sotheby’s & Co., 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W.1] Sale, Early February-J. F. Herring, Senr., 'A Gentleman Shooting'. Signed and Dated 1823. 21½ in. × 29 in.
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[Sotheby’s & Co., 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W.1] Sale, January 15-A Silver Caudle Cup and Cover, London 1689
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[Sotheby’s & Co., 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W.1] Sale, January 27-An Orrery by Thomas Tompion and George Graham, in Ebony and Silver Case
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[Sotheby’s & Co., 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W.1] Sale, January 29th/30th. A Famille-Verte Plate. 13½ in.
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[Spink & Son Ltd, 5-6-7 Kings Street, St. James, London, SW1] Palace of the House of Orange-Nassau, Brussels Jan van Artois, 1613-1684 Fully Signed and Dated Now the Site of the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Oils, Canvas 17½″ × 24″
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[The Mayor Gallery LTD, 14 Brook Street, London, W1] Auguste Renoir Nini au Jardin Canvas 24½ × 19 3/4 Inches
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[W. E. Duits, 6 Duke St. St. James's, London, .W.1] S. de Vlieger Panel, 14½ × 22 5/8 inches c. 1600-1653
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[Wigmore Picture Galleries, 63 Wigmore ST., London, W1] Paulus Potter Signed and Dated 1644. Panel, 18 × 24 Inches.
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[photograph of Duveen offices] Duveen Brothers Inc. Art Galleries. 720 Fifth Avenue, New York N. W. Corner of 56th Street.