Clipping from "Illustrated London News:" "The Latest Masterpiece to Cross the Atlantic," 11 May 1912

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The latest masterpiece to cross the Atlantic: Rembrandt's "The Dutch Merchant," sold by Lord Feversham to Mr. H. C. Frick for about £50,000.

It was recently announced that the Earl of Feversham has sold his famous painting by Rembrandt, "The Dutch Merchant," to Mr. H. C. Frick, of New York, for, approximately, £50,000. The picture dates from 1659, and has been in the possession of Lord Feversham's family for about 160 years. In 1899 it was shown at the Rembrandt Exhibition at Burlington House. The merchant is dressed in a coat of dull dark blue, with a white scarf red at the ends, and a brown hat with a red band. Rembrandt's signature is on the right arm of the chair. Mr. H. C. Frick, the new owner of the picture, possesses one of the choicest collections in the United States. He has two other works by the same master, one Rembrandt's portrait of himself painted in 1658, which was bought from Lord Ilchester; and a portrait of a young man, dated 1647, formerly at Castle Howard. Mr. Frick also has pictures by Franz Hals, Hobbema, Cuyp, Johannes Vermeer, Van Dyck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

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