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HISTORY OF PAINTING:
La Pintura Frecuentada was painted in 1822 by the artist, Paulo Quepaso.
The name, La Pintura Frecuentada, literally translated, means, The frequented, or haunted painting.
Legend
has it that Paulo was a very poor, but gifted young painter in
When Paulo defaulted on a loan, Romero seized the painting as collateral. It was at that moment that Quepaso put the curse upon the painting. Anyone who possessed the painting must be of good moral character, otherwise great harm would come to them.
Several days after seizing the painting, Romero perished in a fire.
The
painting was thought to be lost forever. 13 year later (1835), the
painting resurfaced in the
13
years later in 1848, the painting was seen hanging in the home of a Mr. Arthur
Wells in
The list goes on and on and the pattern is the same. The curse strikes the immoral soul in possession of the painting and the painting goes missing for 13 years. Sometimes the owner does not commit an immoral deed for some time after coming in to possession of the painting and therefore the painting has been visible for longer lengths of time.
Martin J Vanowen, founder of the Vanowen
Museum of Art, came in to possession of the painting in 1927. He was an
honest and decent man and the painting has hung in the museum for years.
His grandson, Martin J Vanowen the third is the current owner of the
painting. He reports strange goings on at the museum as of late and is
troubled by the curse. According to his own report, that is why he allows
the museum to raffle off the painting. He is glad to be rid of it,
according to police who interviewed him in the Intensive Care Unit of St Mary
Hospital. Mr. Vanowen is convalescing after falling from a ladder outside
of his private estate. Has the curse struck again?
