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May 22, 2026
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Hudson's Bay painting with mysterious past sells for $217,250 in auction - BNN Bloomberg
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Article Excerpt
TORONTO — A Prince Rupert painting with a mysterious backstory has sold for $217,250 in an auction.
The 361-year-old portrait was once owned by collapsed department store Hudson’s Bay Co., which has hired Heffel Fine Art Auction House to sell its 4,400 pieces of art and artifacts.
For most of its life, the portrait of HBC’s first governor, Prince Rupert, was believed to have been painted by the studio of Flemish portraitist Anthony van Dyck.
But when Heffel was preparing to sell the work last November, it wondered how a piece that looked so masterful could be attributed to van Dyck’s studio…
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