Sleeper of the week

September 27 2012

This fine Lely surfaced in a country sale today - but unfortunately we were outbid. One of the other underbidders was (as announced on Twitter) none other than Waldemar! An impressive bit of connoisseurship - well done.

Here, we think the sitter might have been William Brouncker, the famous mathematician.

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