OLD MASTER FOR £l0
Man Resells For £4400
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 4. An art-loving factory worker who brought a painting for £lO, unaware it was an old master, sold it today —for £4400. Mr Norman Crompton, of Birmingham, bought the painting in 1947 and stored it in a corner of his bedroom until recently when he took it to the Birmingham Art Gallery to be cleaned. Layers of dirt and old varnish were found to mask a brilliant sunrise seascape, “The Embarkation of St. Paul,” by Claude Lorrain, a celebrated French landscape painter of the seventeenth century. The painting, depicting the embarkation of St. Paul from Caeserea to Rome, was commissioned by a young, Italian nobleman in 1655, It disappeared a few years later, but turned un at a London auction in 1886. It disappeared again in 1888 and was not seen until Mr Crompton bought it in a house auction in London.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29998, 6 December 1962, Page 11
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