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Decades after being cast off in storage, a portrait that was long thought to only share similarities with work by\u00a0Thomas Gainsborough<\/a>\u00a0has been reattributed to the famed 18th-century portraitist.<\/p>\n

The Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) in England once stated that the portrait bore only \u201can affinity with Gainsborough\u201d but was \u201ctoo coarse to be his work.\u201d Now, it has now been placed under his name, 60 years after it was given to the museum, according\u00a0the<\/a>\u00a0Guardian<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The painting, an unsigned portrait of Captain Frederick Cornewall, was given to the RMG in 1960 by the collector Edward Peter Jones. Though it was attributed to Gainsborough at the time, the RMG\u2019s then curator thought the work just shy of Gainsborough-quality.<\/p>\n

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But last year, Gainsborough expert Hugh Belsey found an early 20th\u00a0century image of the portrait when it was held by the storied British dealership Agnew\u2019s. Belsey traced to provenance to Jones, but soon lost the thread. Eventually, an acquaintance spotted the portrait in an illustrated catalogue of the National Maritime Museum\u2019s holdings.<\/p>\n

After requesting the work be rescued from the depths of museum storage, Belsey confirmed it was a true Gainsborough. The curator at the RMG agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis request landed on my desk. We got the painting out of storage. Everything stacked up: it had all the visual hallmarks of Gainsborough\u2019s style in this period,\u201d Katherine Gazzard, RMG\u2019s current curator, told the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gazzard called the misattribution a \u201ccautionary tale\u201d and a reminder to be meticulous when attributing works. \u201cBut we\u2019re excited rather than embarrassed,\u201d she said of the discovery, which dates to around 1762, when a young Gainsborough was working in Bath, England.<\/p>\n

As to why the 1960s curator didn\u2019t believe the portrait to be an authentic Gainsborough, Belsey told\u00a0the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0that the painter was \u201cdeveloping at a very fast pace [at the time] and as he attracted more commissions his style became more assured and his brushstroke freer.\u201d<\/p>\n

RMG has begun\u00a0raising money<\/a>\u00a0to have both the painting and its frame restored, a job which is expected to cost around \u00a360,000. Next year, it will be hung in RMG\u2019s Queen\u2019s House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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