The day after the late Sir John Dewar bought Raeburn's sturdy Highland portrait The M'Nab for £25.410, his canny Scot mind was beset by doubts concerning his investment. To bolster its value he decided to use reproductions of the famed picture on advertisements of his famed whiskey. The M'Nab now hangs in the Dewar London Office, is occasionally shown to the public.
Last week. Lord Dewar's nephew, John Arthur Dewar, who inherited his wealth, proved himself also his uncle's heir in the matter of Raeburns. At a Christie's auction in London he bid...
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