Lost Eugene von Guerard masterpiece is finally home after 150 years
April 12, 2017
The Daily Telegraph | Elzaibeth Fortescue
IT was, says Sotheby’s Australia chairman Geoffrey Smith, “a jaw-dropping moment”. Here it was in his office, a Eugene von Guerard landscape painting whose whereabouts had eluded scholars for almost 150 years. And most unexpectedly of all, the picture had come back to Melbourne, where it was created, from Mexico.