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Queen Victoria with John Brown

Boy, did the experts get this one wrong. When this portrait of Queen Victoria with John Brown was put up for auction in 2011, it was expected to yield an auction price of 20,000 to 30,000 British Pounds. Instead, this…
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Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a Belgian painter and diplomat. This dramatic portrait of the Duke of Lerma was painted in 1603 while Rubens was in Italy. Don Francisco Gómez de Sandoval (1552/3 – 1625) was a favorite of Phillip…
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