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    Farquhar McCrae and The Burning of Troy

    The Search for a Lost Masterpiece

    by Douglas Wilkie

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    For nearly 180 years, between the early nineteenth and early twenty-first century, many art historians believed that Federico Barocci’s 1589 masterpiece variously titled Aeneas and his family fleeing Troy or simply The Burning of Troy, was last seen in London at an auction of paintings from the Orléans Collection in February 1800. We know what the painting looked like, and why it was created, and we know the details of the journey taken by the painting: from Italy to Prague; from Prague to Sweden; from Sweden back to Italy; then to France and to London. But for most who have written about the painting it disappeared from public sight after the auction of February 1800.
    This is the story of how the painting in fact was not lost after the 1800 auction but was sold on several more occasions and went from London to Scotland and ultimately ended up in Australia where it was exhibited by Dr Farquhar McCrae. This is also the story of Farquhar McCrae.
    But this story is not a mere list of dates and facts documenting a sequence of auctions and the sellers and buyers who traded in art works. They are the mere dots of history. The data points. And in joining those data points this story narrates the journey taken by Barocci’s lost painting. During the search, like Alice following the White Rabbit, we encounter clues that entice us to enter pathways that sometimes turn out to be dead ends. And, at the end of the journey, we may, or may not, have found the treasure we seek, but, either way, we can look back at the journey with a sense of great reward.

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    • Primary Category: History
    • Additional Categories Fine Art, Biographies & Memoirs
    • Project Option: 5×8 in, 13×20 cm
      # of Pages: 480
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    • Publish Date: Jun 25, 2021
    • Language English
    • Keywords Burning of Troy, Federico Barocci, Farquhar McCrae
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    Historia Incognita
    Australia

    Researching and Writing Forgotten Histories

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