Original Van Dyck discovered at Bowes Museum Automatic translate

In London, discovered a new painting belonging to the brush of Anthony Van Dyck (Anthony Van Dyck). For many years, it was stored in the storerooms of one of the English museums as a later (XIX century) copy from a picture of the great Flemish artist.

Anthony Van Dyck - Olivia Boteler, c.1630

According to the BBC, art historian and art dealer Bendor Grosvenor has unambiguously certified a 72 by 61 inch woman portrait as Van Dyck’s “Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter”. Olivia Boteler was the court lady of Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I. Her husband, Endymion Porter (Endymion Porter) was a close friend of the artist. Grosvenor saw the picture by chance, on one of the sites on the Internet, as the painting that had been stored in the Bowes Museum in Durham County was not previously exhibited.

In 2008, the painting, among others from the collection of the museum in Durham, was photographed by specialists of the Public Catalog Foundation and placed in the general list of art objects owned by the UK.

Christopher Brown (Christopher Brown), director of the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum) in Oxford and one of the largest specialists in the work of Van Dyck, has already confirmed the correct conclusions about this author of the canvas. Grosvenor believes that the work was done around 1630, and its estimated cost is about one million pounds (1.1 million euros). Previously, the canvas was estimated at no more than 4-5 thousand pounds. The identification process is described in detail in the BBC’s Culture show program, in which Bowes Museum director Adrian Jenkins also participated. Dr. Grosvenor himself called the incident an incredible fluke.

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