Art & Antiques

Willem van Mieris’s A Trumpeter at a Casement Window with Another Figure Holding an Upturned Wine Glass

AN OIL PAINTING by Willem van Mieris (Leiden,1662–1747) sold for more than five times its estimate, setting a new record for the Golden Age Dutch artist.

was expected to fetch between £50,000 and £70,000, but it

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