1959 Press Photo Venetian Artist Francesco Guard. painting

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 work of the eighteenth Century Venetian Artist Francesco Guard.. The paintings illustrates sixteenth Century poem on the Crusades. They were owned by Mr. Geoffrey Merlin an insurance broker of St. John's Wood, London. Photo Shows The fight between Taucred and Argants with Clorinda in back ground -one of the paintings found in a shed. .

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 1-1-1959.



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