From: "Al seckel" To: "Jeffrey Epstein" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Fw: Newton portrait Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:09:35 +0000 Yes, I sent you a thread of internal correspondence yesterday about this painting within the painting department of Sotheby's. It was reviewed and examined by three experts there, who all agreed on its importance, their desire to do a massive "international marketing campaign," around it, etc. Emmeline Hallmark, Head of Department, Early British Paintings, Drwaings, Watercolours and Portrait Miniatures, Sothebys, London David Moore-Gwym, Deputy Chairman, Early English Paintings, Sothebys, London Lucy Fenwick, Director, Early English Paintings, London I can also send you the names of the academic experts, outside of the auction houses, including those at the National Portrait Gallery, Huntington Art Museum (which specializes in 17th century English portraiture), etc. I also have the expert opinion of several art dealers, who specialize in this type of painting. I did my homework... From: Jeffrey E in <*[email protected]> To: Al seckel < > Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 11:58:26 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Newton portrait sorry, Al , i spoke to my art advisors „ they said not even 100k„ and that would be generous.. he is not a good artist. , if it weren't newton, less than 15k On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Al seckel > wrote: I have these appraisals mainly in email I received from Graham Arader, one of the biggest high end dealers in art/rare books in New York, Philadelphia, etc, and someone I have done a lot of business with over the years (as I used to collect very high end antiquarian books and manuscripts). This is an email from early on BEFORE I managed to get all the scholarship done verifying the issues in the description I sent you. Again, this is BEFORE the collapse of the art market. I have a variety of these types of emails, but I didn't seriously follow through, as I wasn't so interested in selling th