Vermeer wows the crowds with £14.5m
RIGHT: despite the occasionally negative press the antiques trade has received in recent weeks a media circus arrived at Sotheby’s on July 7 to watch the Bond Street auctioneers sell Young Woman Seated at the Virginals, a newly-acknowledged picture by Johannes Vermeer (1632-75).
In addition to the usual gaggle of broadsheet journalists were eight film crews and a gallery audien…