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Again being cleaned and restored in the Rubens’ studio.
Reubens Painting Found An analasis revealed the wood it was painted on was indeed
You never know where a masterpiece might be discovered! from the 1620s. The cleaning and x-rays revealed it was not
Kovels.com recently announced that a 400-year-old “lost” a copy. The painting will be shown on the first of the new
portrait of the Duke of Buckingham by Peter Paul Rubens series of TV shows, then put back on display at Pollok House.
was recently identified by an expert from a British TV series
called “Britain’s Lost Masterpieces.” The Duke was a close Other valuable paintings have been found under old
friend of James I, King of England (known as James VI in “restorations.” Remember years ago... The Catholic Bishop in
Scotland). The Duke was assassinated in 1628 when he was Cleveland decided the Church should sell a large expensive
35. home used by his predecessors, along with its contents.
Many large religious oil paintings that sold for low prices.
The painting was part of a public display by the Glasgow Later several of the paintings were taken to a museum to
Museum collection, at the Pollok House, one of the city’s be cleaned. The restoration work included removing “over-
stately homes. The picture had been restored several times, painting” done by an amateur who touched up the church
and the over-painting and layers of old dirt led earlier experts pictures each year. Many of the pictures proved to be
to think it was an artists’ copy. valuable paintings by known 18th and 19th century artists.

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