Dealer takes a £9000 chance on the ‘Barret’ attribution

THE gulf in value between fully authenticated pictures and those with mere attributions was clearly in evidence on March 4 when this 18th century Irish School landscape, right, came up for sale at the Amersham Auction Rooms in Buckinghamshire.

This relined and reframed 2ft 4 1/2in x 3ft 4 1/2in (72cm x 1.02m) canvas had been entered by the wi…

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