The artwork by the last of the 'Pitman painters' is on display at the Bowes Museum in County Durham.
A newly discovered self-portrait of a coal miner turned prolific artist is being displayed at an exhibition.
The sketch has become part of a exhibition there called "Kith and Kinship", which explores life in the north as depicted by Cornish and LS Lowry.The Bowes Museum’s conservator Jon Old, described the discovery as "magical". "So, I decided to remove the board to see if it was affecting the painting, and to my surprise it revealed this wonderful other painting on the reverse, which was quite magical."
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