11.   Not only was the price a record for an American painting, but it instantly catapulted American fine art into the same financial statosphere as European paintings as well.

12.   Originally, Gagosian asked Walter Liedtke, a curator in the department of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

13.   Pelham also introduced Copley to the mezzotint and probably encouraged him to develop his skill as a painter by copying prints of European paintings.

14.   Reed collected European paintings, but his historical significance lies in his support of living American painters, notably Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School.

15.   Sutton, a former European paintings curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, made the return a priority.

16.   The agreement sets no deadline for compliance and envisions a gradual schedule that would start with European paintings and Judaica, Klothen said.

17.   The linear perspective they created became the mother tongue of European painting for four centuries.

18.   The purchase catapults American fine art into the same financial stratosphere as European paintings.

19.   The trust has long had a taste for European paintings and the decorative arts, French furniture and antiquities.

20.   They are oil, acrylic and fabric on canvas and create the mood of a rich old European painting.