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Melzi's son sold most of the manuscripts to one Pompeo Leoni, sculptor at the Spanish court, who in turn sold at least one volume to a Spaniard named Don Juan de Espina. This volume attracted the notice of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, friend to Anthony Van Dyck. For more than ten years the earl's agents nagged de Espina to sell. When Arundel died in 1646 he owned the book, but by that time Charles I had surrendered to the Scots rebels. Hence, suggests Kenneth Clark, the drawings did not at once pass to the British...
...consultation salon on the second floor, the patient walks over thick pile turkey red carpets, passes paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck. In the consultation room are some of the mementos which make Dr. Sheehan, a lonely man, happy-Christmas cards from his good friends King Carol of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians, Alfonso of Spain; autographed photographs of Elisabeth, Alfonso, many a notable in government and medicine:* decorations from Belgium, France, Spain, Rumania. Fastened to red velvet and framed in gold is the "original key used by the ex-Emperor of Germany during...
...boys!" roared the Fire Chief. "Carry out what you can before the roof goes!" As firemen, villagers and servants darted through the smoke, lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid rescued the baton carried by the Duke of Abercorn's late father at the coronation of King Edward...
...with a filly (Regret, 1915), were valued at nearly a million dollars. Among real estate and personal property worth over $6,000,000 were his 634-acre estate at Old Westbury, L. I. ($2,186,000), his private railroad car Wanderer ($25,000), his yacht Whileaway ($62,500), Van Dyck's Portrait of Sir William Villiers ($60,000), Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of A Lady ($18,000), two pink Oriental shirt studs...
...Noble Widows of Crusaders who in 1101 pooled their resources, built an abbey above those cliffs and retired there to spend the rest of their lives. King Albert knew that the cliffs were nearly 600 feet high, full of exciting chimneys, crevasses and pinnacles. With only his valet, van Dyck, he jumped in a little car and drove over. At the foot of the cliffs he looked at his watch, recalled that he had an engagement at the Palais des Sports in Brussels that evening. Then he took a rope, a canvas knapsack and a climbing...