An 18th Century painting by Scottish Romantic painter Sir Henry Raeburn is embroiled in litigation. The work allegedly belongs to Joanne King Herring, the character played by Julia Robert’s in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War, who reported it missing with the ALR, but last year a New York man attempted to sell the painting at Sotheby’s. Although the auction house apparently intended to release the painting to King, it did not do so because the man would not cede ownership even though he could not produce any evidence of ownership. Herring is now suing to recover the work.
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