The only known portrait of the Crimea War nurse dubbed the 'black Florence Nightingale' has been bought by the National Portrait Gallery for £130,000, after being discovered in a car boot sale.
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The 1869 painting of Mary Seacole, by art student Albert Challen, was unearthed in 2003 by a local antiques dealer, who accidentally found it behind a framed print at the boot sale in Burford, Oxon.
By Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent
Daily Telegraph
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