The Art Detectives

Bendor and Jacky visit the the Swansea museum store to uncover a valuable lost masterpiece that will not only become a jewel of Swansea museum’s collection, but also rewrite art history. A giant painting of local coal miners prompts Jacky to re-examine the life of the man who painted them, the renowned Polish artist Josef Herman.

Tucked away in the wilds of Aberdeenshire, Haddo House has been home to Prime Ministers and earls-but is it also home to some of Scotland’s greatest lost paintings? Nearby, in the storerooms of the Montrose Museum lies a mystery painting with a giant hole in it.

Bendor and Jacky investigate what have long been disregarded as low-value copies of works by Flemish artist, Peter Breughel the Younger, at the Ulster Museum. They also visit the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont-in which a controversial painting once slashed with a knife is now kept in a room away from public view.