Regency beauties: New York auction offers pair of Lawrence portraits
Two portraits of Regency beauties by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) come for sale at Cottone Auctions in Geneso, New York, on March 20. Both come by descent from by the Buffalo industrialist Colonel Charles Clifton (1853-1928) who paid huge sums for them in the early 1920s.
Clifton was an important figure in the early years of the automotive industry, overseeing the evol…