Another One Of Those 'Good Luck' Stories,

I like so much,

this time concerning a painting that was long lost that surfaced in an auction in Wealden, Kent in 2004 where amazingly it was even cataloged as a Turner, even though it had a reserve price of just £700 to £900, entitled Fishing Boats In A Stiff Breeze at a golf club auction, it went for £3,700, the new owner Mr Weal came across the 13in by 10in painting at the auction in Wealden, he said: ‘I eventually had to go up to £3,700, four times the estimate, so there must have been some others in the audience who suspected it was seriously valuable,' now historians and scientists are backing up his claim after tests dated the oil on panel to 1805 and a handwriting expert verified the signature on the work was Turner’s,

Turner scholar Dr Selby Whittingham is among six experts who will present support evidence at a conference at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London next Wednesday, Dr Whittingham said it is unlikely to be a fake for many reasons, he said, 'it seems unlikely to be a fake on various grounds, it is an oil painting as well, and most of the Turner fakes have been of his watercolors, and tests on the pigments used date it to about the right time to make it authentic,'

if it is real and it stays at the Dulwich Picture Gallery I hope they take better care of it than some of their other paintings, like the Rembrandt that they have there, it has been stolen a staggering 4 times! and why should they take care of the painting of Fishing Boats In A Stiff Breeze? because if it really is a Turner it may be worth  £20 million! lucky or what?