For sale at Vanderkindere, a work by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (according to a label on the back, unverifiable by me but not unlikely). Estimated at only 400 to 600 Euro, while other paintings by him have literally fetched millions! Then again, this is a quick copy after Rubens, not a huge, elaborate, finely detailed own composition. But still, one couldn't buy a similar Van Gogh, Manet, Turner, ... for that kind of money. UPDATE: sold for 750 Euro, so at least it beat the highest estimate!
The original by Rubens is "The last communion of Saint Francis", here strangely titled "le renonciation des biens". It is kept in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
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