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Could you become an Art Detective, and identify a lost Van Dyck? A 42,000-strong community of internet users is helping to challenge the experts on Old Master attributions. How do they keep doing it? 16 February 2021 • 6:00am Anyone know which location inspired this Ivon Hitchens landscape? : Essex River & Green Hill (1946) Credit: Glynn Vivian Gallery Coll. Unearthing an Old Master painting that has been slumbering for centuries under a misattribution is usually the preserve – let’s be honest, the career dream – of an art expert. Two years ago, though, it was members of the public who helped prove that a 17th-century portrait, thought to be “studio of Anthony van Dyck”, was by the master himself. ....