The guy who let van Gogh go…

by lazy_sport | July 10, 2006 at 09:16 am

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We all love those stories about those people who failed to spot commercial opportunity. Publishers who rejected Harry Potter, record labels that turned down The Beatles, cavemen who didn’t invest in fire…
Meet Alexander Reid, the dude in this portrait. He went to Paris in the 1880s, hung out with an artist, and returned with a couple of paintings, but his father declared them [...]

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