Bach portrait unearthed in Alabama makes $100,000 in Philadelphia

Debate has long surrounded the well-known portrait of composer Johann Sebastian Bach by German court painter and official Leipzig portraitist Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1695-1774).

There are believed to have been as many as 12 versions of the portrait, in which Bach is shown weari…

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