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# 'Antiques Roadshow' Turns Up Original van Dyck Painting
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/antiques-roadshow-turns-up-original-van-dyck-painting/
- Published: 2013-12-30T18:02:07.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:34:04.000Z
- Description: Antiques Roadshow has done it again! The British TV program has uncovered an exceptional art find: an original portrait by Anthony van Dyck.
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: News, Anthony van Dyck, Antiques Roadshow, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

*Antiques Roadshow* has done it again! The British TV program has uncovered an exceptional art find: an original portrait by [Anthony van Dyck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%5Fvan%5FDyck?ref=hyperallergic.com). A priest named Father Jamie McLeod bought the painting, which boasts an in-frame label reading “Sir A. VAN DYCK,” in an antiques shop for £400 (\~$660). When he brought it on the appraisal show, host Fiona Bruce said certain features made her wonder if it was really by the 17th-century Flemish painter. Bruce called in art expert Philip Mould, who quite dramatically (and hilariously) asks McLeod in the video above:

> But, if this is to be by van Dyck, there’s only one way of finding out. The question is: are you prepared to commission a process of cleaning and restoration by which paint is radically removed, but later paint, to reveal what I *hope* could be an original work beneath?

McLeod assented, and after several months, Mould and a van Dyck expert named Dr. Christopher Brown determined that the painting is in fact by the Baroque artist. It’s believed to be a preparatory study of the Magistrate of Brussels, for a 1634 work depicting seven magistrates that was later destroyed.

The painting’s new value? £400,000 (\~$660,000), which McLeod plans to spend on a set of church bells. It’s not quite as much as the $800,000–$1 million [early Diego Rivera painting](https://hyperallergic.com/early-diego-rivera-uncovered-on-antiques-road-show/) found on the American version of *Antiques Roadshow* earlier this year, but it is [“the most valuable painting”](http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/fiona-bruces-antiques-roadshow-hunch-leads-to-discovery-of-lost-400000-van-dyck-masterpiece-9029096.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) ever discovered on the British program, which has been on the air since 1979.