Is This Nameless Masterpiece A Paul Delaroche Original Painting? | Fake Or Fortune

The team have been called in to investigate a mysterious painting in Castle of Park, a grand house in Abderdeenshire now run as a B&B by Becky Wilson. The painting once belonged to Becky's late husband Neil, an art dealer, and although unsigned he always believed it was something special - a lost masterpiece by celebrated 19th-century French artist Paul Delaroche, whose work graces some of Britain's finest collections.
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[@tracyroweauthor]

I've just discovered this series and I am FASCINATED! As an artist and a fan of art restoration I love watching these kinds of videos and it is amazing how the hosts are able to track down the provenance of the paintings they feature.

[@ivorytower99]

You are so lucky, Tracy! Oh, what I to watch the series fort the first time, again. BTW. What did you think of the second episode, (series 1), with the Winslow Homer? It's an episode which brings out great passion in people! Philip made mention the are working on Series 11, now; or at least recently! And I'm with you: I absolutely LOVE this programme and tell as man Master artists about it as possible. BTW, You wouldn't happen to have a son named "Daniel"?

[@galaxyfarrahway]

a privilege to be able to watch this free on your channel, thanks so much

[@amanielwolde]

One of the best episode of Fake or Fortune. I suggested this episode to one member of this french royal family, he knew this château, because he used to visit his grands parents during his childhood. The painting, the exil of the Royals in 1848 in England, the same painting in bigger scale in the church (south west France), the painting represented in the drawing, the painting on the vitrail in the derelict chapel in Château d'EU. But i think what mostly touched me, it was this lady story about losing her husband and go trough tough times for her family. Happy that this painting brang some good news.

[@johnnyrabenold6133]

France does not have a royal family.

[@jimksa67]

Wonderful, couldn't happen to a nicer family. Kudos to the sleuths!

[@TheNinnyfee]

What a lovely family, they deserved every bit of this result. ♥️♥️♥️

[@terrimorrison2857]

I just had to be curious...Becky did sell the painting, July 2019, at a Christie's auction. Many of the discoveries that were made in this show were mentioned on the website for the auction. The painting sold for 33,750 pounds. I was disappointed that it did not sell for more with its rich history, though not entirely surprised with the color changes and the overpainting done, which apparently most, if not all, was done by Delaroche himself to repair damage.

[@Jude74]

All of that and that type of painting is not popular at the moment.

[@caittails]

The economy’s really hurt the art market.

[@canterburyjhiguma8387]

I guess when the host has a good guess that the painting is an original, he says it could be as good as 20-30K. But when he knows it's NOT going to be an original, he throws in a few million pounds to make the average of the series look better.

[@samanthasmith61]

that's better than nothing

[@englishrose4388]

It’s disappointing given such a rich history, a gorgeous painting, and the authentication by the reigning expert.

[@cherryllcooper679]

Loved this series! This will be my third time viewing, I’m sure I will watch them again. All of the presenters are interesting and engaging in their own way. The art and science are interesting and informative. The clients, how they came to have the works, and their reasons for verification are so diverse.

[@chrisvickers7928]

According to Wikipedia, the painting was sold at auction by Christies for 33,750 pounds.

[@kristag9891]

I've also just discovered this series - 2023, and so far, just love it. This particular episode was very moving on a few levels. So glad it all worked out. Love seeing all the many experts involved in the searches. On to the next episode!!

[@mediolanumhibernicus3353]

What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful programme!

[@jmontgomery1178]

What interesting work they do with this show. I love the idea of tracing down clues in old records from one city to another. It's like re-building history. I wonder why they didn't try working backwards--from where he bought the painting to who had it before, etc.

[@mparker6823]

@J Montgomery good point🤔

[@screetchycello]

they probably did, but it likely didn't go anywhere. they tend to only show the interesting bits lol

[@SchlichteToven]

I laughed out loud when Philip said the faces on the copy look like they'd been inflated with a bicycle pump!

[@tonyawilliams9433]

I agree with others... with the exorbitant outcomes of so many other works of art that have been on the auction block....how in the world was this not a million or more. The historical value alone makes this priceless.

[@Jude74]

The artist was popular in his day, and nowadays he is a minor figure. The type of work he did is not in fashion, people don’t commission portraits of patron saint anymore. Nowadays, the majority of the religious pictures they are asking for are Jesus or Mary not St. Amelia. Moreover, the painting was badly damaged. The paint faded badly, and when you compare it to the glorious stain-glass window that was created off of it. It just falls flat.

[@_luckicharms]

Because the original owners/painter do not have the infamy of Henry VIII or Van Gogh

[@heidiheirigs1087]

What a lovely painting! Surprised by auction price in the end. Nicely done documentary.

[@GoBlue79]

Blessings Becky and boys. Well done Neil! I'm thrilled to have found this video series.

[@cheri238]

What journey of a treasure such as this with historical events, stages of colors and a happy ending. Thank all of you for such a commitment to art and research. To Neil Wilson's wife and boys much happiness to all of you for never giving up on a Royal piece of artwork by Paul Delaroche

[@ivorytower99]

My all-time favorite television program. Great episode. What is more, this particular Delaroche should be made into a giclée - so art lovers can own a high-end copy.

[@MossyMozart]

@Ivorytower99 - Perhaps if you contact the woman who owns it at her B&B (Castle of Park, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) and make your suggestion, it can prove to be an increased income stream for her. She can include the story of the authentication with the giclée images. Even if she sells the painting, she can retain the right to sell copies.

[@ivorytower99]

@@MossyMozart Right. I mean. After having international promotion, you would think she--by Rights, would use the Delaroche image on tea towels, napkins, mugs, t-shirts and calendars, all sold in a "guest shoppe" off the main front door.

[@bethbartlett5692]

I'm an American, (Irish American) and recently discovered this series here on KZbin. It takes some time to gain a Viewer's familiarity with the Personalities, and as this unfolds in perspective for me, I find that the energy of Philip Mould emerges as the engine that is inspiring all of the individuals that make up the cast of the shows. His passion for Art and for Truth, his Ethical Pursuit is the glue that binds the whole of their missions and the whole of the show. Point to my thoughts here is that Philip puts his emotions, of his Passions, in each show as a renowned actor does in their role, and that inspires the quality, supported by each of individual that accompanies the journeys, equally inspired and cullminating in the abundant success of this Show Series. I'm very much enjoying these shows and appreciate that the British have successfully Produced 2 (that I know of), successful Academic themed TV Shows: "Time Team" and "Fake it Fortune" That gives me great hope and expectation for opportunities of a far more valuable Media of Television, even across "the Pond". Well done ... Beth a Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian Tennessee, USA ☘️ County Kerry lineage

[@megumirogers8004]

its so beautiful! i mean not only the finding the paintings are real or fake,but also the people who are in this program. Its a human history,and it encouages me to trust humanity again,while we are having the crises in the world,specially the year 2022 to the present.---as a fact i have been searching the new series of them, that unfortunately i found very few. they might have some reasons for it, but i almost pray, it is going to be front of our eyes again.i am a musician and a semi,fake???artist. i thought i know about the pigment,canvas/paper or flame,but i newly learned lot from the program. i am so grateful for that.Thank you!! looking forward for further series from Vienna.

[@reference2592]

Somewhat surprisingly, despite all the work done, this painting sold for only 33,750 pounds at Christie's in 2019.

[@jimksa67]

How quirky, here's hoping that Emily's fortunes totally turn about anyway!.

[@reference2592]

In fact, the 33,750 pound figure actually includes Christie's 25% buyer's premium which goes entirely to the auction house. So, the actual hammer price would have been closer to only 25,000 pounds.

[@dislikebutton1935]

Dammit, have to get a job after all 🥺

[@CanChikMay]

Wow.still better then the 5000!

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@CanChikMay I think she said it was 500£…so yes, much better.🖤🇨🇦

[@soniatriana9091]

I’m not that knowledgeable about the Art World, but this episode was phenomenal in so many ways! Solving a mystery of this caliber was fascinating, so much knowledge, skill, & problem solving are required! Everyone involved was genuinely committed to getting true logical evidence, that was also scientifically supported! Thank you for making this show!!!

[@paulopheim4224]

My favorite sleuthing show .... every single episode is a nail-biter, and the 2 hosts are simply wonderful.

[@amherst88]

Superb series -- please post more ❤

[@carolefreeman2544]

It was sold through Christies.. Delaroche Sainte Amélie, Reine de Hongrie Found at Christies, London British & European Art: European Art, Lot 238 11.Jul - 11.Jul.2019 Estimate: 30.000 - 50.000 GBP Price realised: 33.750 GBP

[@tamayagarner1542]

Bless you two!! The work you do in research delights me. What you have done for Neil's painting is amazing and for his family. Thank you

[@LarWolkan]

fantastic episode... makes me wonder what happened to all the other paintings painted by Nash in the Queen's bedroom....

[@Miapetdragon69]

When he placed that picture in the middle of them and called it the missing link " hopefully" I got shivers all over my body! It'd be absolutely brilliant if this was the missing picture.

[@marnidamoulakis3827]

I love love love this program! Thank you very much for the upload!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jarlsoars1150]

@40:50 ... I had to laugh at Philip's wording there. Anyway, this was a thrilling episode.

[@1P0T]

That got me too 😂

[@jarlsoars1150]

🤣

[@peterscheidfilmmaker]

Beautiful. The light shines through after 50 years. Great series!!!

[@plumeretbonnet]

loved this series.

[@mayonaissse]

What an exquisite painting! I can't stop looking at it. It's so tender and atmospheric, imbued with quiet grace and dignity and like Philip said, full of exquisite details. A truly remarkable find.

[@CharlesFrank-ky8nq]

This is so worthy of a book and a Hollywood film.

[@priscillaridgway268]

Getting to know some great dealers can really help one learn and grow, and once they know your heart's desire they will be looking for great finds for you. Looking around my living room I can see a luminist seascape, a 200 year old French tapestry chair, bronze sculptures, a cabinet of curiosities with Tibetan and Chinese objects, bookcases full books and a collection of blown glass from Italy, Germany and, a Chinese lamp, french polished burlwood desk and so on. You are speaking my truth.

[@TheDarivan]

Better than many suspense series and movies, wonderful chapter, thank you.

[@doogalloonni]

Such beautiful interiors and art pieces. Like jewels...This family is so blessed.

[@OohMax]

By far my favorite episode

[@ThinkGodThankGod]

Absolutely love Perspective AND Fake or Fortune. So much exquisite work on extraordinary art how lovely ❤️❤️🙏

[@MCBRUCE76]

Just £75K, for a lost piece of a historic treasure, is quite less. Awesome work by the detectives and their team. The amount of time, work, and research, involved in making these videos, must be mind-boggling.

[@auntymar-marjustme]

I wish that the original "air date" was put into the description box.

[@englishrose4388]

It’s so difficult not to forward to the end to find out the outcome!

[@juliadouglas872]

I’m happy for her. And, that Neil was well remembered.

[@warfivevy0ne454]

Masterpiece Presentation

[@chrisdeoni1697]

NEIL, kind and loving soul, rest in peace with joy.

[@sgmode774]

Such a wonderful story and series! Perhaps the Producers of the program would update us on whether or not Becky decided to keep her late husband's historic purchase or sell it.

[@RoxanneM-]

I did a quick search and apparently she did in 2019.

[@Melvinator311]

Adding to what Roxanne pointed out, it looks as though it made 33,750 pounds.

[@chrisrea7347]

Second time I have watched this fabulous detective story. You 2. are such a great team plus the Researcher!! Greetings from NZ.

[@1P0T]

Words fail me. Great episode. Beautiful.

[@henrychaikin]

was going to disrespect Phillip's sports jacket but he is just too cool, you wear that well my man!

[@RomanicusMaximus]

Tedious work with an amazing result by the investigators. God bless their work.

[@qossl6727]

Thanks for this wonderful programme. I feel heartbroken by seeing the room the former queen created with everything she held on to. It’s not about monarchy or status but loosing one‘s life as you knew it completely and not recovering from it.

[@davidhoggan5376]

God. Imagine that being your home - Unbelievably elegant.

[@texianguy]

If you want to know more about this painting. It got sold at auction in London for $42,260 in June 11.2019.

[@carlabraenne3469]

This show is going goosebumps! Love it!💞

[@thoughtbomb6490]

Man I'm seriously so fn sad that he didn't get to see the official record amended to be found. That would have been such a good feeling to feel.

[@sentimentalbloke185]

Why didn't they go backwards from 1989 on the provenance? Curious.

[@anthonymorales842]

The interiors whenever filmed are just stunning

[@terryt.1643]

I hope that Becky and her kids are happy and healthy now since it’s been a while since this episode was filmed. I would imagine the damage was due to the revolution and that would make it more valuable.

[@khanyisambotini1820]

This episode should be a movie, there are powerful similarities in the love between the french king and queen and those who ended up with the painting the thread that connects the two ❤

[@sharonloomis5264]

Oh wouldn't it be absolutely fantastic if they could restore the stained glass window? Beautiful.

[@red.aries1444]

The town of Eu, which owns the château, isn't so big and rich. I'm sure they will restore the whole chapel one day. Maybe this episode helps to raise money for this project.

[@nancyloomis3046]

i just watched this again and enjoyed the outcome...again. ❤

[@tamarrajames3590]

What a lovely outcome, and there was a lot of tangled evidence, with so many iterations of the piece. Regardless of it having sold for a good bit less than it was estimated, Neil was vindicated, and the amount realized will enable his family to stay in the last home they shared with him.🖤🇨🇦

[@rapidostyleart2637]

im lost for words what a work of art, rich in history

[@stevie-ray2020]

How disheartening it must have been for Paul Delaroche to discover the damage to his painting was so bad that he didn't feel he could restore it to its original state!

[@sophiabright8371]

That's such a beautiful painting. ❤❤❤

[@anne-mariebiorci5453]

This a beautiful painting of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament🦘🐨🇦🇺

[@loganjohnson3589]

A lost royal treasure ?a very rare find indeed ,How very wonderful .

[@englishrose4388]

Such an amazing piece and story.

[@elinorfletcher5662]

A fascinating discovery trail and have learned so much about how pigments faded quickly in former times. Also that even a top artist had to do some overpainting some time. Elinor Carleton Smith

[@paulzeman3945]

Wow. You are both so brilliant

[@brahmburgers]

I like 'Fake or Fortune' series bigly. I've watched about 14 of them. Thanks, and aloha from Hawaii.

[@neilerickson3158]

Brilliant!

[@ronrossi8475]

A hidden work by a great artist and found be an individual who did believe in the work throughout his own life. It is a great painting. This was a good story. (Sorry about the commercials to ruin parts of it.)

[@johnwright2911]

Fascinating episode!

[@IThink2Much]

I cannot imagine how incredible it would be to find out that a painting commissioned by the last queen of France, used to create an incredible stain glass window in that queen's chapel, hung in another of the queen's chapels, and finally hung in her bedroom after she was exiled from France during the French Revolution....was just casually hanging around your house since 1989. That would be mind blowing.

[@NightsMuse]

This was almost a knuckle bitter-it looked like the evidence was all against the claim. Great detective work and a very good show.

[@jasonking6892]

Great show . Best thing on Telly 👍🇬🇧

[@kjbuchanan63]

Well, that was a real tear-jerker!

[@pinargungor8487]

Love the series. I really wish to have a job like theirs.

[@celtoloco788]

start studying art history now. In 30 years they will hire you

[@michaelpenklis7580]

You have to be an absolutely brilliant painter to paint a work of art.

[@robcs5467]

😘🖼️🖌️🎨💖 * Sublime, Adorable....Greetings of New York * 💝🎨🖼️🙌🥰

[@lupodisol]

This was another fantastic!!!!!!presentation by BBC.

[@MissPerriwinkle]

hope they do this show for many more years..

[@quietflowstheriver]

Real or not .... its a beautiful painting !!!!

[@actionjackson9554]

Great channel and presentation 😁

[@kaylaantonio6460]

I wonder how much the painting sold for? Very cool provenance.❤ Bendle (sp?) always slays with the research. He pulled out all the receipts this time. These hosts know how to build up the drama! ❤

[@bethbleas8378]

The engraving with the queen and king fleeing, the horses are surrounded...the king I believe has a wrapped painting under his arm!

[@ericswain4177]

The husband got it when he was working at Cristy's in 1989 a bit vague, did he get it from Cristy's, ? if so was there no record of the sale and where it came from, or who put it up for sale to trace it back to.? Cristy's would certainly have records of sales even if it came to Cristy's as an unknown artist. Instead, they go back to where it disappears from ownership of a relative coming forward, great evidence but very strange. ! Hmmm interesting.

[@Michael_Arnold]

Wow. You're right.

[@patzeuner8385]

I think the husband started his research going back from his purchase date. Where the show started from is when the painting was first created. Possible that the husband hadn't the access to the earliest info. Either way the husband was correct in his belief that it was an original.

[@red.aries1444]

Maybe someone came to Christie's, offered this painting there and the auction house wasn't interested, because they couldn't earn much money, by selling a painting in commission for ojust few hundred pounds. And the husband bought it then directly from the vendor without asking to much questions, because he just thought it is a nice painting and 500 Pound wasn't a big risk. Then there wouldn't be any traces at Christie's. The husband had maybe only the name and adress of the seller ... and lost it, or there wasn't any trace of it left, when this episode was produced. He bought the painting in 1998, but he did his first research, when he showed it at the exhibition of Delaroche at the National Galery in 2010. That's 12 years later. As an art dealer Neil should have shown more effort to resolve the questions around this painting. Surely Neil hadn't all the contacts, which Philip Mould used, and probably didn't had the money to travel much around for his research. But at least it should have been possible for him to find out, that Delaroche painted a picture like he had. In 1997 a book about Delaroche and his paintings has been published. I'm sure in this is somewhere a mention about Delaroche and his painting for the french queen included. That book should have been available for Neil if he would have done some research in a Libary. It's all a little bit spurious...

[@gillianwhitfield9746]

Hello... I'm Archie! So cute! You can see they're a lovely family

[@garywilloughby6893]

48 years old how very sad.

[@AtomicBlonde1]

Amazing

[@davidlambert6171]

It was sold via Christie's in July 2019 for a mere £33,750. Far below the 75K it was valued.

[@PhilipHema-td5vd]

As fascinating and absorbing this series is, in this case, did I miss how and where the painting turned up for sale where Neil purchased it? I love this show❤

[@deborahstone9696]

Purchased in 1989 for $500 pounds

[@deborahstone9696]

He bought it at christies. He was working there at the time hun.🎉

[@brianjohnson8918]

Well told. By the time they found the image in the watercolor of the bedroom I didn't care what the final result was, the journey they portrayed to get to that point was so interesting.

[@barbaraannroach6033]

I enjoy the series a lot. My difficulties with these is that the so-called experts don’t take in the small points for instance and measuring the painting and noticed the edges and noticing that one side had a straight line. They should’ve realized that this was different from the beginning, and realized that it had been fixed as far as the painting is concerned on the frame it was on. I’m sorry I’m not an expert.

[@gregb6469]

It makes for better TV to bring in experts to 'discover' such details.

[@ts-eu6mp]

The gicle'e is a fine idea! Art lover, Terri Spencer-Williams

[@renaenolen8461]

Yellow & Red are usually the first colors to fade thru sunlight. Also in clothing, thru repeated washing they fade first.

[@pierrenilsson4179]

That a great series!

[@_luckicharms]

This episode was especially interesting

[@Nivasi]

WOW!!!

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Artist not my cup,of tea…the presenters? I’m addicted!

[@mariyafelyshyn889]

Moj ulubiony odcinek.Lubie do niego wracac.