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Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson portrait set for dollars 7m Manhattan sale
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20040317
Author:Tim Cornwell, Arts Correspondent
AN OIL painting of Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife that the author once described as excellent but "damn queer" is expected to fetch up to dollars 7 million (GBP 3.9 million) when it goes on sale at Sotheby's in New York.
Dating from 1885, by John Singer Sargent, a celebrated American portrait painter, it shows the Scottish novelist with his wife, Fanny, ten years his senior.
She was married with two children when Stevenson met her, but he pursued her across the Atlantic, travelling steerage on the crossing and ending with a gruelling overland trek to California.
Sargent painted ...
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