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...chosen for display from the collection's total of more than 1,000 works. The finest U.S. collection still in private hands-and the first to be shown abroad-the Lehman collection boasts several of the world's great paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Memling and Petrus Christus (see color pages), includes an eye-stunning array of tapestries. Renaissance furniture, jewelry, enamels, bronzes and even diamond-studded snuff boxes. It represents collecting on a grand scale not likely to be repeated...
Staying clear of the High Renaissance masterpieces, the Lehmans on their regular summer trips to Europe sought out bargains to their taste, rapidly expanded the collection to include other Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish masters (including the prize of the collection, Petrus Christus' The Legend of St. Eligius and St. Godeberta, bought for $144,000 in 1921), filled it in with matching period pieces of Renaissance furniture, tapestries and majolica plates. Robert Lehman, who as a boy accompanied his parents on their art forays, exults: "It was a fascinating way to get an education...
...British corruption of the 17th century Dutch word for farm (bouwerij), as the citizens of New Amsterdam called the estate of their director-general, Petrus Stuyvesant...
...Eyck color-a clear, deep crimson." As to the value of Detroit's find, one of 30-odd Van Eycks in existence, Richardson pointed out that Manhattan's Frick Collection paid a reported $750,000 for a Virgin and Child by Van Eyck and his follower, Petrus Christus. Already one dealer has offered Detroit $400,000 for its St. Jerome. But Director Richardson had a firm answer: the painting is not for sale...
...When Shall We Be Saved?" In twelve months 60,000 came to see Lenshina and be baptized. Even in the rainy season, they were coming by the hundreds. The pennies they bring her have mounted into a sizable treasury presided over by her fanatical husband Petrus, who, some say, is the power behind Lenshina. And the Presbyterian mission of Lubwa, the oldest in Northern Rhodesia, is on its last legs...