Paintings at a Price
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Paintings at a Price. DESCRIPTION: The portrait of the First Duke of Wellington, painted when the Iron Duke was 43, set a record price for a Goya. It was knocked down, to an American, for a hundred and forty thousand pounds! This was one of thirty-two pictures sent by the Duke of Leeds for sale at Sotheby’s. Altogether, the Leeds pictures fetched well over a quarter of a million. SHOTLIST: Key scene - Duchess of Leeds to auctioneer. GV enter gallery. MCU Wellington portrait. CU crowd. MLS interior of St Paul’s Rome. CU same. MLS Portrait of a Gentleman. CU same. MCU Mr Wilson. MLS Iron Duke portrait. CU same. MCU auctioneer. CU Duchess of Leeds.
- Keywords
- Shops and shopping; Arts and crafts
- Locations
- Sotheby’s, London
- Card file number
- 82661
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Jeffrey K. Shearley
- Camera
- Ken Taylor
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 87
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