Two decades ago, the painting sat abandoned in a farm shed, covered in bird droppings. It sold Thursday at auction for $3.1 million. The large oil painting , discovered by art.
Two decades ago, the painting sat abandoned in a farm shed, covered in bird droppings. It sold Thursday at auction for $3.1 million. The large oil painting, discovered by art collector Albert B. Roberts in the shed in Kinderhook, New York, around 2002, was later confirmed as a work of 17th-century Flemish artist and Dutch Golden Age master Anthony Van Dyck, a former assistant to Peter Paul Rubens. According to the UK Times, Kinderhook was founded by Dutch settlers in the late 17th century, which might explain how the painting came to be there.
