Hi All While searching the British Newspaper Archives for references to my STENSON family, I came across the following article from the Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 19 July 1900: ART SALE A few highly important objects of art came up for sale at Christie's yesterday, the best prices being as follows:- A miniature of Miss Stenson, of Coalville, by Plimer, 500 guineas; a Louis XVI gold box with six panels, after Greuze, 460 guineas; and a miniature of George Washington, by Smart, 80 guineas. At first I thought Miss Stenson might have been the owner of the miniature but the later item about George Washington seems to prove that Miss Stenson was the subject of the miniature. I was wondering if anyone would know how I might follow this up to find out more about this miniature. Vern in Canada
Hi Verne, Does Christie's have an archive of their sales? Just a thought. Carolyn in Minnesota USA -----Original Message----- From: leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vern Prescott Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:29 PM To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: [LEI] Plimer Miniature of Miss Stenson Hi All While searching the British Newspaper Archives for references to my STENSON family, I came across the following article from the Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 19 July 1900: ART SALE A few highly important objects of art came up for sale at Christie's yesterday, the best prices being as follows:- A miniature of Miss Stenson, of Coalville, by Plimer, 500 guineas; a Louis XVI gold box with six panels, after Greuze, 460 guineas; and a miniature of George Washington, by Smart, 80 guineas. At first I thought Miss Stenson might have been the owner of the miniature but the later item about George Washington seems to prove that Miss Stenson was the subject of the miniature. I was wondering if anyone would know how I might follow this up to find out more about this miniature. Vern in Canada ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message