Hals & Turner Paintings Bring Millions
"Artist Frans Hals' painting, Portrait of Willem van Heythuysen, has exceeded its estimated price and sold for £7m ($13.8m) at a Sotheby's auction in London... JMW Turner's Pope on the Thames at Twickenham sold for £5.4m ($10.7)- the fourth highest price for a work by the artist ever achieved at auction." BBC 07/10/08

Posted July 10, 2008 05:36 AM