There was a time when art dealers had to sneeze their way through auction rooms in order to unearth the right piece, but the work of a sleuth has changed in recent years. Today, we do much of our work in front of a computer screen. So it was, on this particular day, that I flicked through the pages of eBay. Suddenly I was struck by a small thumbnail image; it was billed as An American School …
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