Previously unknown portrait depicting a little-known composer surfaced in France last year
Thomas Gainsboroughâs âtotally unknownâ portrait of AntonÃn Kammel, c1768. Photograph: Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsboroughâs âtotally unknownâ portrait of AntonÃn Kammel, c1768. Photograph: Thomas Gainsborough
Sun 4 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
A completely unknown portrait by Thomas Gainsborough has been discovered, to the excitement of scholars of art and music as it is thought to depict an unjustly forgotten musician who was well known in 18th-century Britain.
A painting of a man holding a scroll of manuscript music was described only as âBritish Schoolâ when it surfaced in France in December, selling in a Paris auction for around £2,500.