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10 Old Masters That Changed The Art Market. #6: The Duchess and ‘The Napoleon of Crime’.
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Thomas Gainsborough’s portrait of Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, had been missing from Chatsworth House for years when it was spotted, in the 1830s, above the fireplace of an elderly schoolmistress.
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The portrait caused a sensation when it was offered at Christie’s in 1876, and became the most expensive painting ever to have been sold at auction when it was purchased by the London-based dealer William Agnew.
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Just a few days later, the work was stolen in a crime that rocked the nation. Cut from its frame in Agnew’s gallery, the painting remained hidden in a trunk in the United States for 25 years. The perpetrator was a notorious thief named Adam Worth, also known as ‘The Napoleon of Crime’.
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In 1901, with the help of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, Worth returned the work to Agnew for a $25,000 ransom, stating, ‘The Lady must go home’. The painting was then sold to J.P. Morgan, in whose collection it remained for nearly a century, before being acquired by the Duke of Devonshire in 1994 and returned to Chatsworth House.
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire’, c. 1787. Sold for: 10,100 guineas on 6 May 1876 at Christie’s London. © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth/Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees/Bridgeman Images
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