The Carel Fabritius’s Goldfinch from 1654 found superstardom thanks to Donna Tartt
Carel Fabritius’s painting The Goldfinch (1654) left the Mauritshuis in The Hague on a “brief winter migratory”. Now it is exhibited at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh until 18 December. The painting has never before been shown in Scotland, and has only been exhibited in the UK on a handful of occasions. When it was last shown outside the Netherlands at the Frick Collection in New…
