Flemish flourish as lively Old Master emerges at Bellmans
A lively 17th century painting showing people in a Flemish tavern, drinking, smoking and playing cards with a man playing the bagpipes will be among the lots at Bellmans’ Old Master & 19th Century Paintings auction in Wisborough Green, West Sussex, on March 29.
It is ascribed to an unidentified artist known as the Monogrammist HC, a painter who specialised i…