Vanishing Man - Cumming Laura
Vanishing Man - Cumming Laura In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. When Laura Cumming stumbled on a startling…
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Vanishing Man - Cumming Laura
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. When Laura Cumming stumbled on a startling trial involving John Snare, it sent her on a search of her own. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velázquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history.
At first she was pursuing the picture, and the life and work of the elusive painter, but then she found herself following the bookseller’s fortunes too – from London to Edinburgh to nineteenth-century New York, from fame to ruin and exile. A