The Vanishing Velázquez : A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece (Paperback)

from maryreinert

The author obviously has a great love for the works of Velaquez, a Spanish artist of the 19th Century. This book, however, focuses on one man, John Snare who was a minor book dealer and printer. Snare comes upon a work which he believes to be an original Velaquez and pays a small sum for it. This...

from arubabookwoman

In 1845, John Snare, owner of a bookshop in Reading, England, came across a painting offered at an estate sale auction that he believed to be a portrait of Charles I painted by Velazquez in 1623 when Charles I had traveled to Spain as a young man. Velazquez had been the official court painter for...

from aegan

The story is lost in the description. She also repeats herself often.

from akblanchard

Author Laura Cumming combines what little is known about renowned Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) with what little is known about John Snare, a nineteenth century British bookseller. Snare acquired what he believed to be a long-missing Velázquez portrait of King Charles I of Eng...

from k6gst

This is a double biography of Velazquez and a Victorian English bookseller and printer, John Snare, who became obsessed with a Velazquez portrait of Charles I that he acquired and subsequently let destroy his life. The portrait is lost, and there is no known copy. It's really equal parts biograph...