Sleeper Alert!
July 21 2020
Picture: Antiquesandthearts.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The sale of a reverse glass painting in the USA last week has attracted some interest online. The intriguing colonial era painting, described as being by Mather Brown, was sold for $84,000 to an online bidder over an estimate of $6,000 - $8,000. The work bears an inscription explaining that it represents the Delivery of the Definitive Treaty by the Hostage Princes into the hands of Lord Cornwallis.
Update - A surviving fragment of Mather Brown's original painting survives in the Bowes Musuem.
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