On first glance at today’s wonderful first portrait, we would be forgiven for thinking that it was a painting by the great Raphael, or another renaissance master of the 16th century.
But in fact, this is a work from 1835 by the German artist Ernst Deger - a quiet man from Düsseldorf, who had become a second generation follower of a kind of rogue art mov…
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