The Art Detectives

Bendor suspects that a portrait by an unknown artist in Oxford’s Bodleian Library may have been painted in the 1750s by the master of Grand Tour portraits, Pompeo Batoni.

In Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, a roughly painted woodland scene might be a preparatory sketch for a Thomas Gainsborough landscape.

In the stores of the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff is a Madonna and Child by a follower of Botticelli. Could it in fact be from the hand of the master himself?