How to make copies interesting

September 6 2018

Video: Sotheby's

Sotheby's has a new online auction category; Old Master copies. In the above video, Georgina Eliot explains why we're wrong to often be so dismissive of 'copies'. Bidding ends on 13th September, and the sale catalogue here. I love the memorial portrait of Charles I, which looks like a very early copy after Van Dyck, not least because it's on panel. Was it the sort of thing produced illicitly during the Interregnum?

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