Last week, art scholar Gianni Papi, writing in the Burlington magazine, suggested the painting could be from the collection of King Charles I. “It’s common for women’s work to be wrongly attributed to male artists,” said Palmyre Manivet of Simon Gillespie Studio in London, where the work was restored. When the canvas, David and Goliath, was sold at Sotheby’s in 1975, it was believed to be by Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, a student of Gentileschi’s father, Orazio. Just last week, a previously misattributed painting believed to be by her was unveiled in London, a city where she once lived and worked. As has happened with many female artists, Gentileschi’s paintings were ignored and wrongly attributed for centuries. She is Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1656) and, next month, the National Gallery is mounting the first major exhibition of her work in the UK.
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