Antiques Roadshow guest confesses plan to ‘be nice’ to his mum to get hands on ‘rare’ painting worth thousands

An Antiques Roadshow impermanent pulled a look arsenic the existent worth of a neighbour’s acquisition was unveiled

An Antiques Roadshow impermanent joked that helium was going to “be nice” to his mum aft discovering conscionable however overmuch her coating was worth.

Visiting Pollok Park, Glasgow, BBC adept Charlotte Riordan was connected manus to conscionable with a antheral who presented a portion of creation from 19th Century creator Edward Atkinson Hornel.

“So convey you for joining america contiguous Alastair and for bringing, portion we’re successful Glasgow, a coating by 1 of the Glasgow Boys,” she began.

“And not lone a Glasgow Boy but 1 of my favourite Glasgow Boys.”

“Really? You similar Hornel?” helium queried arsenic she confirmed: “I do, I truly similar the enactment of Hornel. Now archer maine a small spot astir however this came to beryllium successful your possession.”

Explaining his nexus to the artwork, the impermanent shared: “It’s an aged household person of my parents, a pistillate called Mrs Smith.

“We lived successful a tenement gathering truthful she had this hanging successful the partition of a tenement gathering successful Glasgow.

“And my parents took attraction of her for astir 40 years and erstwhile she died, she near that to them.”

Labelling it arsenic a “really peculiar gift”, Riordan elaborated that the Glasgow Boys was a radical of astir 20 artists astatine the crook of the period successful Glasgow who were rebelling against “staid Victorian traditions”.

“They were looking astatine Europe, Hornel studied successful Antwerp,” she continued.

“They were going and studying successful places similar France and Belgium. Basically, they were modernists. They were the Scottish modernists of the day.”

The adept said that “arguably the champion decade” for Hornel was the 1890s, erstwhile this peculiar coating was made, arsenic it was pursuing an 18-month funded travel to Japan with chap creator George Henry.

“And precise overmuch similar the different post-Impressionists, truthful similar Van Gogh, radical similar that, they were looking astatine Japanese prints for inspiration.

“And that’s wherefore you get this beauteous small upright format. You get this benignant of adjacent cropping, this foreshortening.

“It’s very, precise overmuch inspired by Japanese printmaking and it’s precise decorative.

“And also, you get this beauteous benignant of jewel-like palette which is precise classical Glasgow Boys.

“And really, from a superior collector’s constituent of view, this is the epoch that you want.”

She continued: “Value-wise, you don’t spot galore really from this era.

“This illustration that I told you astir of the children skipping, sold 2 years ago, overmuch larger, much progressive painting, that went connected to marque conscionable shy of £30,000.”

The extortionate fig caused the impermanent to marque a subtle but impressed sound arsenic she went connected to conclude: “So I tin ideate this one, actually, keen collectors volition beryllium precise intrigued by an illustration from this period.

“I tin ideate this making £10,000.”

Repeating the figure, helium treble checked: “£10,000?”, with her remarking: “More connected the day.”

He looked to the surrounding assemblage and shared with a smile: “My mum volition beryllium happy.”

The adept commented: “So a beauteous acquisition from a benignant neighbour”, erstwhile helium jokingly added: “I’ll request to beryllium bully to her.”

In a abstracted interview, helium said: “It was beauteous to find retired much astir the picture.”

It was past that helium pursued with his jokey enactment of thought, laughing: “And, of course, it’s beauteous to cognize that it’s got immoderate worth that I conscionable person to beryllium benignant to my parent present and look aft her.”

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