Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1897 — Big Prices for Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Big Prices for Pictures.

Franz Hals’ portrait of a man in a white ruff and black hat brought $17.585 recently in London, that being the highest price paid at an auction sale in England for one of his pictures, not two dozen of which in all have been sold in this country. An interior with figures by Jan Steen sold for $5,000, two landscapes with figures on horseback by De Keyset- brought $3,675 and $2,025. Sir Edwin Landseer’s “Hinds Alarmed” was sold for $2,025, and C. Stanfield’s “Nelson’s Victory Towed Into Gibraltar After the Battle of Trafalgar” for $1,260.