"As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-Century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.
The Charles of the painting was young--too young to be king--.
When John Snare, a nineteenth Century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he found a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-Century bookseller determined to prove he had found it
