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<\/a>For more than a century art historical experts have labelled a painting Queen Victoria bought as a Christmas present for Prince Albert a 19th-century fake.<\/p>\n
But a new generation of art historians has discovered they were wrong. Victoria and her advisers were correct when they bought the painting in 1840. It is a genuine work by the German master Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the gloriously restored work went on public display at Windsor Castle, taking pride of place in the King\u2019s Dressing Room alongside other works by Cranach.<\/p>\n
Nicola Christie, the head of paintings conservation at the Royal Collection Trust, welcomed the discovery. \u201cIt is an absolute thrill. It doesn\u2019t happen very often and it is such a pleasure to know that it has been reattributed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The painting Portrait of a Lady and Her Son (c 1510-1540) shows an unidentified consort of a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and her son, hand in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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