Rosalba Carriera portrait breaks record as it fetches £508,000
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CheffinsThe portrait of Coulson Fellowes by Rosalba CarrieraA portrait by Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera has sold at auction for more than 20 times its estimate, fetching over £500,000.The sum is a world record for a work by Carriera, who died in 1757, according to Cheffins auctioneers in Cambridge.The painting, a portrait of Coulson Fellowes, who was MP for Huntingdonshire from 1741 to 1761, had a pre-sale…
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