Fake Or Fortune?

Fake Or Fortune?: Gainsborough

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Fake Or Fortune?

Gainsborough

ABC | October 9, 2016

Visual arts

Critical thinking

Classification: General

Presented by Fiona Bruce, with art experts Philip Mould and Bendor Grosvenor. The team are on the hunt for a lost masterpiece by Thomas Gainsborough thought languishing in the stockroom of a gallery or hanging on a museum wall.

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Presented by Fiona Bruce, with art experts Philip Mould and Bendor Grosvenor. The team are on the hunt for a lost masterpiece by Thomas Gainsborough thought languishing in the stockroom of a gallery or hanging on a museum wall.

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The focus turns to Britain's public art collections, in which 17,000 paintings are listed as 'artist unknown'. From these Philip Mould and his research director Bendor Grosvenor identify several works they believe are by Thomas Gainsborough. They choose two paintings, the first being an 18th-century portrait of St Albans mayor Joseph Gape that Bendor thinks dates back to the artist's days as a high-society portrait painter - although he'll need to convince the world's leading Gainsborough expert. Philip's choice is a rare landscape, painted when the artist was experimenting with dreamlike scenes. But why is conservationist Aviva Burnstock troubled by a distinctive blue pigment?

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The focus turns to Britain's public art collections, in which 17,000 paintings are listed as 'artist unknown'. From these Philip Mould and his research director Bendor Grosvenor identify several works they believe are by Thomas Gainsborough. They choose two paintings, the first being an 18th-century portrait of St Albans mayor Joseph Gape that Bendor thinks dates back to the artist's days as a high-society portrait painter - although he'll need to convince the world's leading Gainsborough expert. Philip's choice is a rare landscape, painted when the artist was experimenting with dreamlike scenes. But why is conservationist Aviva Burnstock troubled by a distinctive blue pigment?

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