Painting of a fire of London – but not the great one – comes to auction

A sale of Old Masters, British & European Art at Chorley’s in Gloucestershire on June 27 includes this 17th century English School painting depicting the burning of London Bridge.

The work shows not the Great Fire of London from 1666, however, but the little-known earlier event…

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