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You can’t keep George Caleb Bingham down. No sooner was it announced that a painting by the prominent 19th-Century American artist had been sold for the highest price ever fetched by an American work of art--$6 million--than another Bingham came on the market at a similar price. New York art dealer Lawrence Fleischman, president of Kennedy Galleries, said Thursday he acquired what may be the last important Bingham genre painting in private hands and was putting it on the market for a seven-figure sum “not far away from that record price.” He identified the painting as “The Puzzled Witness,” which Bingham painted in Kansas City, Mo., in 1874.