Nicky Philipps, renowned for her pictures of the royal family, are investigating a painting from the walls of Picton Castle. The work was bought in the 1930s by her great-grandfather, who believed it was a work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The team investigate how a possible 16th-century Italian old master Francesco Montemezzano found its way into a small English church. And Philip is immediately struck by the imposing painting, which depicts one of the most dramatic scenes from the New Testament
The team attempts to validate the provenance of two inherited paintings found in a coal hole of a house, one which has been attributed to Alfred Munnings while the other may be the work of statesman and amateur artist Winston Churchill.
