We thought it would be a good idea to take you deep inside the roadshow. Over the next three weeks the team will share previously Untold Stories as they come face to face with classic finds from the past, truly priceless moments. Have you ever wondered what were the most expensive items ever seen on the show . Bruce how did a mildmannered art expert manage to outrage the women of shropshire . The whole reason that youve come to this w. I. Is because of the remark you made. Seems that today is the appointed hour of my penance. Oh, no no bruce and roadshow veteran henry sandon takes us back to his onscreen debut when the antiques roadshow was a toddler in the world of television. We all love those jawdropping valuations when an expert has floored us with a fivefigure bombshell and there have been plenty of them over the years. But from 500 hours of programs which were the real corkers . Here are five finds which shocked viewers with staggering valuations. Who could forget the time when d
Discover the magnetism of this iconic painting that nearly fell into obscurity. An assessment by Alison Hokason for The Metropolitan Museum. When the British artist Frederic Leighton exhibited his iconic painting Flaming June in 1895 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, critics assessed it as one of his finest submissions, and it quickly became a popular hit.…
A review (and history) of the painting owned by Ponce's Museum of Art in Puerto Rico. ”Flaming June,” the iconic painting of the Victorian era by Sir Frederic Leighton (1830–1896), has followed a most unusual trajectory. Around the turn of the century, art collector Samuel Courtauld called it, “The most wonderful painting in existence ……
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