Long-Unseen Van Dyck Pendant Portraits Fetch $8.2 M. at Sotheby’s

In their first appearance at auction in four decades, two paintings by Anthony van Dyck depicting a married couple from Antwerp sold for £6.2 million ($8.2 million) at Sotheby’s, achieving the second-highest price for the artist at auction.
Sold together as a single lot during a Sotheby’s Old Masters sale in London on Wednesday evening, the two portraits had remained in private hands since 1976, when they were sold at auction for £38,000.
The sum paid for the pendant port