Quiz: Find the Original
June 10 2020
Picture: Saleroom
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Forgive me for the overload of portraits this week, but here is another fun opportunity for readers to test their connoisseurship. This painting described as 'Portrait of a gentleman with a ruff collar' is coming up for sale at the auction house Hutchinson Scott. It is a copy of a known painting. Can you find the original on which this picture is based?
No prizes, just for fun.
Update - Congratulations to reader Karen Hearn who spotted that this is a copy of Van Dyck's portrait of Ambrogio Spinola. Here's a post from 2014 highlighting the recently upgraded version in Edinburgh.
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