Mystery painting unites two nobles

Doyle’s (26% buyer’s premium) sale of Old Master and 19th century Paintings & Drawings in New York on October 19 was topped by a 15th or 16th century Flemish School oil on panel portrait of a soldier.

As inscribed to the frame, the subject was once thought to be the Spanish general Gonzalo de Cordo…

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