The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez by Laura Cumming

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez

Laura Cumming

308 pages digital 2016

11 editions

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In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velázquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history. Wh...

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