Saturday, November 20, 2010
Painting Found In West Virginia...Auctioned For Thousands
WEST VIRGINIA....
A painting that was found under decades of dust in a West Virginia attic has been sold in Texas. Heritage Auctions said the 5-foot-by-7-foot painting of the Texas Revolution’s decisive Battle of San Jacinto was expected to go for $100,000 to $150,000, but it sold on Saturday at an auction in Dallas for $334,600.
H.A. McArdle painted the work in 1901, five years after he did a large mural of the scene in the Senate chamber of the Texas Capitol. The painting was lost for almost a century after McArdle’s family moved to West Virginia. It was discovered earlier this year in the attic of McArdle great-granddaughter Lynn Bland Buell’s home in Weston, West Virginia.
A painting that was found under decades of dust in a West Virginia attic has been sold in Texas. Heritage Auctions said the 5-foot-by-7-foot painting of the Texas Revolution’s decisive Battle of San Jacinto was expected to go for $100,000 to $150,000, but it sold on Saturday at an auction in Dallas for $334,600.
H.A. McArdle painted the work in 1901, five years after he did a large mural of the scene in the Senate chamber of the Texas Capitol. The painting was lost for almost a century after McArdle’s family moved to West Virginia. It was discovered earlier this year in the attic of McArdle great-granddaughter Lynn Bland Buell’s home in Weston, West Virginia.
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