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Antiques Roadshow guest horrified at true value of '£1million painting'

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BBC 's Antiques Roadshow with a gold-framed painting along with an auction catalogue from the time it was purchased before it was passed on in his family.

He told painting specialist Rupert Maas that the portrait was thought to be painted by the popular artist Sir Peter Lely, sometime in the 1600s.But the expert was certain that what the guest had was not an original but most likely a copy painted in the 19th century.Rupert said the catalogue of 1845 indicated the painting as one of Lely's but it had a loose interpretation of the trade description act."The thing about Lely, the great portrait painter that he was, is that when he died he left hundreds of unfinished portraits and versions of portraits already done," he told the guest."His.

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