POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — On July 23, Hyde Park Country Auctions conducted a multi-estate auction, offering the partial contents of properties in Connecticut, Dutchess County and Ulster County, N.Y. The surprise top lot was an oil on canvas painting of a mother and her sleeping child that was probably Italian and dated to the Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century. The painting was in good condition with some crazing and possible overpainting, but had not been examined under a black light. Its frame was not original to the painting. From a Rochester, N.Y., estate, the painting was bid from its modest $400/600 estate to $18,750. More on this and other high-ranking lots to follow.