Painting of Enlightenment figure, whose constitution for the island inspired revolutionaries in US, is up for auction
Thirty years ago, a painting by the British artist Sir William Beechey was sold as “portrait of a man”.
The anonymous buyer, however, knew precisely who the unnamed man in the picture was: Pascal Paoli, the 18th-century Corsican independence leader and icon of the Enlightenment.
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