LONDON (Reuters) - An oil portrait dismissed for years as a copy of a Rembrandt and priced at just 1,000 pounds has sold for 2.5 million pounds ($5.1 million) after frantic bidding in a West England saleroom.
"To say the least, the owner is a very happy man today," Philip Allwood of auctioneers Moore, Allen & Innocent said by telephone from Cirencester.
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