Art World. 'A Museum in Wales Had a Botticelli Right Under Their Noses and Didn’t Realize It Until This Helpful TV Art Detective Told Them.' The painting is the latest discovery made on the BBC show 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces.' Javier Pes, November 14, 2019
This week it’s a Botticelli, last week a Brueghel. The number of Old Masters in UK museums that would never see the light of day unless the broadcaster and art historian Bendor Grosvenor has spotted their potential is growing fast. Both paintings are now on public display, having been cleaned, reattributed, and revealed during the hit art detective TV series Britain’s Lost Masterpieces.
The Madonna and Child by the Italian Renaissance artist and his workshop went on show today at the National Museum Cardiff in Wales. It had been in storage for more than half a century, regarded as a mere copy. “It fell from grace because experts never quite made the effort to go and see it,” Grosvenor tells Artnet News, pointing out its distance from London.
The same is true of a landscape by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The dingy looking panel painting was in a drawer at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the Midlands of England. A wreck of a painting, it was broken in two, heavily over painted, and attributed to an “anonymous Flemish artist.” It too is now on display, thanks to the Lost Masterpiece team. Grosvenor’s eye was drawn to the quality of a cow’s backside, and a horse. Assisted by the conservator Simon Gillespie, who removed decades of dirt and layers of discolored varnish, and the academic Emma Dabiri, who placed the art into a wider historical context...
More, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/botticelli-bbc-show-1703712
- Botticelli's Madonna and Child (detail). National Museums of Wales. Revealed on BBC TV's Britain's Lost Masterpieces.
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