The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession With a Lost Masterpiece

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When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King 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 painted by the Flemish painter to which the work was attributed.

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