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Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:25

Long-Lost Painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema Discovered on BBC's Antiques Roadshow

Portrait of Leopold Löwenstam by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1883 Portrait of Leopold Löwenstam by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1883 Courtesy of teh BBC

In 1883, Alma-Tadema painted a portrait of his friend and engraver Leopold Löwenstam as a wedding gift; the portrait depicts Löwenstam at work. Exhibited on several occasions, it was last shown publicly in 1913 and art historians have long considered it lost. The painting actually remained in Löwenstam’s family and was brought to the “Antiques Roadshow” by his great-great-grandson.

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