Antiques Roadshow guest astonished by valuation of painting bought in Scots charity shop
An oil painting detecting Scottish islands has received a shock valuation after being bought in a charity shop.
Wales Online reports that Ford explained: "This is such an immediate, fluid, colourful painting, I'd love to be able to paint just like this. It really is a confident, colourist painting, now, it's an oil on canvas and it's clearly signed lower right, Cunningham." "We were driving home, all the way back to Shropshire, and my children were only 10 and 12 and I realised the rain was coming down and I had no raincoat for the children, so I stopped at the nearest charity shop and went in to get a raincoat but I didn't get a raincoat, I got a painting."
Following his retirement in 1985, he became a professional artist, painting the oil painting which was brought to the Roadshow. Grant then asked: "You go into the charity shop for a raincoat, and you find a picture by John Cunningham, one of his favourite subjects, what did you pay for it?"
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