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...These include a 1705 clock by Thomas Tompion, the most prominent maker of his day, and a mahogany-encased barometer by George Adams from the time of George III....
...HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, followed the Dolphin two years later....
...William II died of smallpox in November 1650; a week later, Mary gave birth to the future William III of England....
...In the Christie’s sale, lot 53 provides an arresting example of Mr Wilson’s “trophy” category....
...The model is one of a series commissioned from the Florentine sculptor Pietro Tacca by Cosimo III de’ Medici around 1614 as part of a gift to James I of England....
...This column went to print ahead of another similarly estimated auction at Christie’s on June 20....
...In 1688, the British had a Dutch king — William III — who, with his wife Mary, had come to replace the reviled James II during the Glorious Revolution....
...Two years ago the painting was sold to James Tomilson Hill III, president and chief executive of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, for £30.6m by the Earl of Caledon....
...A more cumbersome and recent client was the Aga Khan III, who dropped almost half a stone to 16st 7¼ in 1931 “after influenza”....
...Colnaghi is displaying the lyrical conversation piece, “The Sayer Family of Richmond” (1781), by George III’s favourite painter, Johan Zoffany....
...Interestingly enough it was Labour prime minister James Callaghan who pioneered a more monetary approach to inflation....
...Christie’s science specialist James Hyslop says that an 18th-century microscope without a maker’s mark could fetch £500, but had the maker signed the piece, it would bring in £3,000....
...Last year at Grosvenor House, Woodburn sold the Tompion clock, given by King William III to the Medicis of Florence, for £2.5m....
...Last year Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5” and Willem de Kooning’s “Woman III” sold for $140m and $137.5m respectively....
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