by Jon Lackman | 14 November 2006 | Baroque/Neoclassical
From The Telegraph: “The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, owned by the Royal Family for almost 400 years, has lain unloved and seldom seen in a storeroom at Hampton Court for decades. Misattributed as a copy of a Caravaggio by an unknown hand, it was valued in thousands rather than millions.
The Royal Collection, whose experts have cleaned, restored and studied the picture for six years, declared yesterday that it is authentic and one of only around 50 surviving canvases by the Italian master. ‘I am convinced it is by Caravaggio,’ Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, said. ‘We are extremely excited, it’s the most important discovery in the collection in the last decade.’”
