![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Could he and the experts who authenticated that picture have got it wrong? The trouble is that in 1999, Philip helped authenticate a different picture as 'the lost Gainsborough'. Mark’s picture looks very much like a famous print by Gainsborough, copied from one of his paintings, believed to be lost for many years. Philip is intrigued by this painting as it’s a landscape he recognises. Mark’s father tore off the Gainsborough label in disgust, but Mark would love to be able to put the name Gainsborough back on the painting. But then a valuation downgraded it to a Barker of Bath – an attribution Philip calls a ‘bin name’. The painting has been in the family of owner Mark Cropper for generations, and until the 1970s it was considered to be a Gainsborough. The team investigate an 18th-century landscape: could it be a lost work by the great British master of landscape painting, Thomas Gainsborough? ![]()
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