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Vareika traded dealing in courtrooms for dealing paintings

VALUABLE COLLECTION: Bill and Alison Vareika gather amongst some of their extensive collection of William Trost Richards paintings in the Vareika Fine Arts Gallery in Newport.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN
VALUABLE COLLECTION: Bill and Alison Vareika gather amongst some of their extensive collection of William Trost Richards paintings in the Vareika Fine Arts Gallery in Newport.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

William Vareika was supposed to be a lawyer, not an art dealer. But sometimes fate has a way of making these decisions for you. A pre-law student studying at Boston College in the ’70s, Vareika took an art history elective that set him on a career path that has occupied half of his life. His

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