Scripto | Transcribe Page
Log in to Scripto | Recent changes | View item | View file
Clipping, "Offers $500,000 for Painting?" from "Pittsburgh Dispatch," 1 March 1911
http://transcribe.frick.org/files/Bill_Book_2/3107300004006_331_POST.jpg
« previous page | next page » |
You don't have permission to transcribe this page.
Current Page Transcription [history]
MAR 1 1911
PITTSBURGH DISPATCH
OFFERS $500,000 FOR PAINTING?
H. C. Frick Reported Bidder
for a Rembrandt.
LONDON. Feb. 28 -- [Copyright Cable.]
-- It is reported here that H. C. Frick is the American who offered 500,000 for Lord Lansdowne's famous Rembrandt, "The Mill."
Lord Lansdowne has had several offers for this picture. P. A. B. Widener of Philadelphia went to $350,000, but without avail. It is said that Lansdowne has offered the National Gallery the option of taking the picture at the price Mr. Frick offers.