Another One Of Those 'Good Luck' Stories,

we like so much,

this one concerning a painting by Anthony van Dyck, Father Jamie MacLeod, took the painting he had paid £400 for along to be valued at Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, for the Antiques Roadshow, so you can imagine his surprise when presenter Fiona Bruce suspected it might be a genuine work by the Flemish master and so it turned out, 


the artwork will now be sold by Fr MacLeod to pay for the restoration of bells at the chapel within the grounds of the retreat he runs, He said: ‘It’s wonderful that new church bells hopefully will be pealing out to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War in 2018.’ for those that are in the UK the discovery is to be revealed on BBC1 at 7pm tonight, 


this painting makes the  portrait the most valuable painting ever found on Antiques Roadshow, did I mention the painting has been valued at up to £400,000, lucky or what?