7 reasons why this portrait of a dog looks set to get tails wagging at Cambridge auction

A previously unrecorded painting attributed to Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, the Italian Old Master known as il Guercino (1591-1666), has been consigned to Cambridge auction house Cheffins. It will be offered its sale on March 7-8 with an estimate of £80,000-120,000.

Important Old Masters by major names in art history – especially with canine subjects – are not the …

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