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In one of the world's most expert fine art critics, the incredible true report - part fine art record and part enigma - of your Velázquez portrait that went lacking and the obsessed 19th-century bookseller decided to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, journeyed to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a stunning portrait of Ruler Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young - too young to be king - and yet also too young to be decorated by the Flemish painter to that your work was attributed. Snare got found something incredible - but what? His research helped bring him to Diego Velázquez, whose long-lost portrait of Prince Charles has eluded fine art experts for decades. Velázquez (1599-1660) was the state painter of the This town court at that time the Spanish Empire teetered on the advantage of collapse. When Prince Charles of Great britain - a guy prosperous enough to help switch Spain's fortunes - ventured to the court to propose a marriage with a Spanish princess, he allowed just a few hours to be seated for his portrait. Snare assumed only Velázquez could have met this obstacle. However in making his theory consumer, Snare was ostracized, sufferer to aristocrats and critics who accused him of fraudulence, and pressured to choose, like Velázquez himself, between fine art and family. An exciting investigation in to the complex meaning of authenticity and the unshakable willpower that drives both music artists and collectors of the work, The Vanishing Velázquez travels from extravagant Spanish courts in the 1700s to the gritty courtrooms and auction residences of 19th-century London and NY. Nonetheless it is most importantly a tale of enigma and detection, of tragic mishaps and mistaken identities, of class, politics, snobbery, criminal offenses, and almost farcical automobile accident. It is a magnificently built pause resister, a testimony to how and why great works of art make a difference us to the point of obsession.
