Mackinac Island museum acquires portraits of American Loyalists

Portraits depicting Arent DePeyster (shown here) and his wife, Rebecca DePeyster, Americans who supported the British during the Revolutionary War, sold for roughly $51,000 to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency. The paired paintings were offered at Bellmans, an auction house in Billinghurst, England, on October 11.
Portraits depicting Arent DePeyster and his wife, Rebecca DePeyster, Americans who supported the British during the Revolutionary War, sold for roughly $51,000 to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency. The paired paintings were offered at Bellmans, an auction house in Billinghurst, England, on October 11.
Portraits depicting Arent DePeyster and his wife, Rebecca DePeyster, Americans who supported the British during the Revolutionary War, sold for roughly $51,000 to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency. The paired paintings were offered at Bellmans, an auction house in Billingshurst, England, on October 11.

BILLINGSHURST, U.K. – A pair of husband-and-wife portraits of Loyalists – Americans who supported Britain during the Revolutionary War – have sold in a British auction for the British pounds sterling equivalent of $51,000. The buyer is the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency which will place the paintings in its museum collection.

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