Enormous Prices For Paintings

Some enormous prices were realized at a recent sale in London, of the collection oL pictures formed by the late Mr, Munro. Sir Joshua Reynolds' " Iütty Fisher" brought $3,570, and his portrait of the Hon. Mrs. Stanhope, personifying ' ' ContemplatioD, " was knoeked down for $15,300. Wilkie's " Gentle Shepherd" brought only $816, and the pictures of Richard Wilson, believed by manyinEnjlandtobe tbe fmest classical landscape painter of the eighteenth century, sold for a mere song. Then carne the produetions of Joseph M. W. Turner. Tkirty-two drawings, largo and small, brought a little over $81,600. The oil pictures, -which included "Arcicnt Italy," " Modem Rome, " "Rome from the Oventuine," " Jnliet After the Masquerade," " Van Tromp's Gallery," "Avalanche ifl tho Val d'Aosta," and t)ie "Kilgarren Onstle," went at prices ranging between !?10,'200 aiid $29,780 apiece. Two others sold for over $26,000 each. The nine works in oil produced an aggrfigato of $211,956, and the grand total for all the Turners sold that day was $293,632. - Two undeuiably germine Hogartlut, beiug two of the scènes from the "Ilra-lot's Progress," went cheap. one for $2,650, and the other for $1,530. Two paintings by R. P. Bonington, "The Fish Market," and "Tho Grand Oanal, Vonice," sold for $15,300 apieoc. The total amonnt realized was $350,575, the highest ever reached for Btteh a small number of pictures.