Sir Francis Drake wart and all portrait fetches £290,000 at auction
An early Anglo-Dutch portrait of the swashbuckling English sea captain Sir Francis Drake topped Bonhams’ Old Master paintings sale on July 4 in New Bond Street. It sold for £290,000, just below its juicy £300,000-500,000 guide.
The portrait shows Drake wearing enormously expensive blackened and gilded half-armour.
A facial …