Peter Silverman

PETER SILVERMAN is a Canadian art collector and connoisseur who purchased a small portrait at a New York gallery in 2007 for $19,000 and subsequently authenticated it as a previously unknown work by Leonardo da Vinci. He is the author of Leonardo’s Lost Princess: One Man’s Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci, co-written with Catherine Whitney.

Among Silverman’s other significant discoveries are three miscatalogued works by Van Dyck and a wooden cross attributed to Michelangelo. The book was translated into French and Italian and adapted into the documentary film Mystery of a Masterpiece.

Peter lives in France.

Peter Silverman’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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