A 'masterpiece' portrait by 18th-Century artist Thomas Gainsborough has been found in storage in a London museum.
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The 1762 painting of Captain Frederick Cornewall was spotted in an illustrated catalogue of the National Maritime Museum's collection in 2022 - but was attributed to an unknown artist.A crowdfunding campaign has begun to raise £60,000 to restore the work. The artwork first entered the museum's collection in 1960 as a bona fide Gainsborough but was re-attributed to an unknown artist by the then curator, who did not think it was of a high enough quality to be the work of one of the founding members of the Royal Academy.
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