This was after he saw a story on the artist's house in a magazine.
It is the Thomas Eakins House , where the artist worked and lived for most of his life.
The artist and the auction house have made a concerted effort to market the sale on YouTube, making presentations at the Oberoi hotel in New Delhi, in Kiev, the Hamptons and Aspen, Colorado.
Among wealthy contributors to his quest for the White House are leveraged buyout artist Henry Kravis and Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football team.
Like the original Shaw house, little is known about the artist, Isaac M.
Though El Glaoui was never able to meet and thank Churchill, the exhibition at Leighton House Museum -- which was first proposed by the artist's daughter -- is a belated meeting between the two painters.
"I wouldn't sell my front yard for a million dollars, " said Horton, a retired artist who has lived in the same house for 53 years.
The artist will perform at the Terrace Bar of the House of Commons next month in support of an initiative which aims to raise awareness of community music.
House of Commons Curator Malcolm Hay said the artist had done well in "capturing Speaker Bercow's presence".
But the artist still works there by day and travels to a safe house by night.
The artist disliked the glass walls on the entire side of the house that the previous owner had installed, because he felt the light in Dali was too bright.
Other avid collectors include Barbra Streisand, who was first drawn to the artist's paintings in the 1970s when she was building a house in Art Deco style.
The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce presented a sketch from its adopted artist Peter Latchford of a steel sculpture weaving its way through the Council House, which it said was designed to represent the "spirit of Birmingham".
On the evening of Nov. 6, in the packed Rockefeller Center salesroom of Christie's auction house, four buyers were vying for a 1955 Picasso oil of Jacqueline, the artist's second wife.
The house was recently awarded a blue plaque to mark it as the former residence of the artist, Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples.
Meanwhile, Paul Benney, a resident artist at Somerset House, has chosen its Deadhouse, a network of underground passages beneath the fountain court, to display his latest series of "Night Paintings" (until Dec. 9).
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TFL's clients around Treleddyd Fawr now include the RNLI lifeboat station at nearby St Justinians, Shalom House hospice in St David's, and artist Jackie Morris.
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