Fake or Fortune?: Delaroche

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team have been called in to investigate a painting in Castle of Park, a grand house in Aberdeenshire now run as a bed and breakfast by Becky Wilson. The painting once belonged to Becky's late husband Neil, an art dealer, who always believed it was a lost masterpiece by 19th-century French artist Paul Delaroche. It cost just £500, and Neil had tried to convince experts that the detailed painting of a royal lady and her attendants was an important missing work. He was about to conduct further research when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and he passed away in 2014. Becky contacted the Fake or Fortune team to say she and her children would love to know if Neil was right about the painting - if it is by Delaroche, then it is worth an estimated £50,000. The stakes are raised when evidence in the British Museum suggests the painting might be a lost royal treasure which was once owned by the last King and Queen of the French.