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		</div><p>Peter Paul Rubens’ 17th century masterpiece Portrait Of A Lady has sold for the equivalent of £2.6 million at a Warsaw auction, becoming the most expensive artwork ever bought on the Polish art market, the auction house said.</p>
<p>The painting sold for 14.4 million zlotys, auction fee included, at an Old Masters auction Thursday night at the Desa Unicum.</p>
<p>It was the first painting by Rubens ever to appear on the Polish market. It was put on sale by a British citizen.</p>
<p>Before the auction, the value of the Flemish master’s oil-on-canvas portrait of a dark-haired woman in a rich black velvet dress had been estimated at between 18 million and 24 million zlotys (£3.5 to £4.5 million).</p>
<figure id="attachment_173009" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-173009" style="width: 764px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ID_108449_001big-764x1030-1.jpg" alt="Portrait of a Lady - Peter Paul Rubens" width="764" height="1030" class="size-full wp-image-173009" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-173009" class="wp-caption-text">A portrait of a lady painted by Peter Paul Rubens between 1620 and 1625 will be auctioned in Warsaw on March 17 with an estimate of $4.5 million-$6 million. Image courtesy of the DESA Unicum auction house</figcaption></figure>
<p>Experts say the work, painted by Rubens around 1620-25, with involvement from his Antwerp workshop, could be a likeness of the painter’s first wife, Isabella Brant, or of a member of the Duarte family of jewellers, who were Rubens’ neighbours.</p>
<p>The model could also possibly have come from the Spanish royal court.</p>
<p>In the past the painting has belonged, among others, to 17th-century British painter Sir Peter Lely. It was last shown in public in 1965.</p>
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