Magistrate of Brussels
Magistrate of Brussels | |
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Oil on canvas | |
Owner | Father Jamie MacLeod |
Magistrate of Brussels is an unfinished oil painting or oil sketch by Anthony van Dyck, rediscovered in 2013 after being shown on episodes of the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow.
The work was purchased for £400 from a Nantwich, Cheshire, antiques shop some years previously by Father Jamie MacLeod and hung in the Whaley Hall Ecumenical Retreat House, which he runs, at Whaley Bridge.[1] At one point, it fell from the wall there, smashing a CD player, but sustained no significant damage. The frame was labelled "Sir A van Dyck", but the picture was thought to be a copy.[1] He took the painting to a recording of Antiques Roadshow at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, in 2012.[relevant?][1][2]
MacLeod then took it to a second recording, at the
Mould thought that the painting was probably a preparatory sketch for Van Dyck's 1634 work
Mould valued the sketch at between £300,000 and £400,000,
See also
References
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- ^ "Antiques Roadshow Cirencester 1". Antiques Roadshow. Series 36. Episode 7. 3 December 2013. BBC. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ^ "Fiona Bruce's Antiques Roadshow 'hunch' leads to discovery of lost". The Independent. 29 December 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
- ^ "Van Dyck: What Lies Beneath". Fake or Fortune?. Series 2. Episode 3. 30 September 2012. BBC. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ^ Withnall, Adam (29 December 2013). "Fiona Bruce's Antiques Roadshow 'hunch' leads to discovery of lost £400,000 Van Dyck masterpiece". The Independent. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ^ "A new Van Dyck discovery at the Royal Collection – Art History News – by Bendor Grosvenor". Art History news. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ^ a b Grosvenor, Bendor. "A Study for the Head of a Magistrate of Brussels". Artnet. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
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- ^ "Antiques Roadshow Van Dyck painting fails to sell at auction". BBC News. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
- ^ a b "Anthony van Dyck | Rubenshuis".
- ^ "Sketch of a Brussels Magistrate by Anthony van Dyck on long term loan to the Rubenshuis". 17 November 2015.