14 November 2006

Masterpieces in the sewing room

I know I have made fun our Queen previously for keeping a Caravaggio in her storage cupboard. But if you not actually worth hundreds of millions of pounds it might serve you to actually know what it is you have hanging in the spare room.

An Oxfordshire woman who bought the pair of paintings in the sixties for a couple of hundred pounds has now discovered that they are actually missing works of the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico. They are estimated to be worth in the neighbourhood of one million pounds.

All I ever find in my spare room are dust bunnies!

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