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Sandy Lerner’s Collection Comes to Auction

Nearly 400 lots from Ayrshire Farm go under the hammer at the Potomack Company

By Leland Schwartz · September 14, 2026

Sandy Lerner, famous for building network router company Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley, for preserving Jane Austen’s family home in England, and for her organic farm in Virginia’s Hunt Country, is auctioning an array of art, furniture and other objects from her house on Ayrshire Farm in Upperville, which recently sold for $20 million. The collection ranges from paintings — …

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