Pick of the week: Gainsborough back in dealer’s hands

A work thought to be one of Thomas Gainsborough’s (1727-88) earliest attempts at oil painting as well as his earliest-known self-portrait was one of a number of lots drawing considerable attention at Cheffins.

Offered in Cambridge on April 21, the three-quarter-length work depicting him as a young teenager …

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