1959 Press Photo Venetian Artist Francesco Guardi's Sophronia asking the Saracen

Famous paintings found in a Shed - on show in London. Exhibition of Italian art at Royal Academy: A Private view was held today at the Royal Academy of the Winter exhibition entitled ''Italian Art in Britain''. Among the exhibits are five large paintings which were found in a shed in Dublin and have been identified as being the work of the eighteenth Century Venetian Artist Francesco Guardi. The paintings illustrates a sixteenth Century poem on the Crusades. They are owned by Mr. Geoffrey Mertin an insurance broker of St. John's Wood, London. Photo shows Sophronia asking the Saracen King Aldine to release Christian prisoners one of the paintings found in a shed.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.

Photo is dated 01-01-1959.



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