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Author icon Admin  |  Calendar icon 04th Oct 08, 8:08 AM

You may be aware that the Antiques Roadshow is also produced in Holland and just like in the UK there are sometimes some incredible finds. On an episode to be aired next March that was filmed at the Rijksmuseum Twente art museum in the eastern city of Enschede a previously unknown work by 17th-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger has turned up. The painting, which dates from approximately 1620, was bought from an antiques dealer for 100 guilders in 1959 (less than £530 today).
The painting was taken to the show by a lady whose husband had originally bought the picture. An art expert has called it "the find of the century" and estimates its approximate value at between £62,000 and £75,000.

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