William Sartain, after Thomas Phillips, Portrait of Byron, 1868, Mezzotint, The Print Collection of the New York Public Library. “Byron: A Life in Motion,” at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A.
It’s not unthinkable that you would find an anonymous, rolled-up painting—at a flea market, say—and hang it up in your home for a splash of color. But it’s pretty unusual to discover later on that the ...