This extract from a new book about works in the Dulwich Picture ... star of the sales was a pair of half-length portraits by Van Dyck that sold for £6.2m at Sotheby's, the second-highest price ...
An Anthony van Dyck portrait of a horse with a hidden landscape on the reverse will go under the hammer next week during Christie's "Classic Week" events, where it could fetch up to $3.80 million.
Among those works were drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer and Anthony Van Dyck as well as nine by Rembrandt. They joined a collection bought at auction in 1688 by William’s ...