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How I know the new portrait is by Leonardo

Posted by admin On October - 14 - 2009

By Sir Timothy Clifford , director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland from 1984 to 2006 (THE TIMES, 14/10/09): Early in November, a year ago, I first met the owner of the newly discovered drawing profile portrait of a Milanese lady. It appeared in The Times yesterday as an exciting “find” of a previously unknown work by Leonardo da Vinci. The owner, Peter Silverman, already had something of a reputation for discovering masterpieces, and I was interested to see a photograph h

Tags: DIRECTOR, Galleries, General, masterpieces, peter, Portrait, scotland

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