Rosalba Carriera painting sold at auction for more than 20 times its estimate
A portrait by the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera has sold at auction for more than 20 times its estimate, fetching £508,000. The sum is a world record for a work by Carriera, who died in 1757 aged 84, according to Cheffins auctioneers in Cambridge. The painting, a portrait of British politician Coulson Fellowes, who was…