Bonhams realise an American dream
UK: THE exceptional levels of demand recently seen for American pictures impacted on the London salerooms on the evening of December 14 when Bonhams achieved a record £1.4m for Richmond Hill in the Summer of 1862 by the Hudson River School painter Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900).
This panoramic landscape, measuring 4ft 6in by 8ft (1.37 x 2.44m), was painted as a companion to Cro…