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Rare Van Dyck Painting Found In Farmer’s Shed Covered In Bird Droppings Expected To Sell For Up To $3 Million
A portrait found in a New York farm shed covered in bird droppings was recently authenticated as an original work by the ...
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An astonished family discovered that a painting that decorated their living room for decades was a Van Dyck that could be worth millions
Born in Antwerp, in what is now Belgium, van Dyck went on to become a royal court painter for the English monarch Charles I. Many of the painter's most famous portraits came during this period ...
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James Stunt was a well-known art collector who relied on heiress wife Petra Ecclestone to help him pay for paintings, art dealer who sold him Van Dyck's £4m masterpiece tells ...
However, Geoffrey Stunt maintains he is the true owner of the 17th century Van Dyck masterpiece. His barrister, Lee Schama, the court: 'The Trustees contend that the painting was purchased by or ...
The Art Newspaper1y
Why Anthony van Dyck was summoned to paint a recently deceased noblewoman
And yet, when the artist Anthony van Dyck went to Venetia Digby’s bedside to paint her, she was not sleeping. Lady Digby was famed as a great beauty of the Stuart court and, before her marriage ...
The New Criterion1y
Dobson: the most excellent painter
Adding that he was an acclaimed painter of the Royalist aristocracy of seventeenth ... in that time and place is tightly bound up with Anthony van Dyck’s portraits of Charles I and his court, their ...
The Art Newspaper7mon
Two-for-one: double-sided Van Dyck to be sold at Christie's
When the owners of this painting by Anthony Van Dyck bought it from Christie’s ... collector Thomas Gambier Parry (1816-88) at Highnam Court, near Gloucester—was included in the 2004 catalogue ...
The Independent1y
Bankrupt former son-in-law of Bernie Ecclestone loses court battle over centuries-old painting
James told the court he had “an interest” in the ... is one of a small collection of double portraits painted by Van Dyck. The artist was born in modern-day Belgium and came to work in England ...
London Evening Standard1y
Bankrupt British socialite is owner of centuries-old painting, judge rules
He told the court that the art company that sold the ... is one of a small collection of double portraits painted by Van Dyck. The artist was born in modern-day Belgium and came to work in England ...
London Evening Standard1y
James Stunt loses High Court dispute over £4m Van Dyck painting
The High Court was told that the businessman expressed interested in the painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck when he saw it in 2012 but later recommended it to his father after deciding against ...