“I just saw it through an open doorway, an ancient painting ... Mother and Child. Who are they? Who painted it? Perhaps most tantalisingly of all, could it be an almost 400-year-old masterpiece ...

Known for her hauntingly surreal, dream-like portraits, Lux’s photographs feature young children digitally altered to resemble the aristocratic stiffness and formality of Old Master paintings.

At Sotheby's Old Masters and 19th century paintings ... The big win of the night was for Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century painting The Virgin and Child Enthroned, which sold after a frantic ...