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Antiques Roadshow guest floored as he learns truth behind Shakespeare painting picked up for just £5

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AN ANTIQUES Roadshow guest was floored as he learned the truth behind a Shakespeare painting picked up for just £5. In a classic episode of the BBC show, expert Phillip Mould met a man who had a portrait of author Charlotte Bronte.

Phillip started by saying: "We have a saying in the art world that in the back of the picture, it will often tell you more than the front. "But you found something beneath the picture, did you not?

Now, it all started with you buying at a house clearance this print of Charlotte Bronte.” The guest replied: "Yes, I basically bought it for the frame because I like the frame.

I thought the frame was very old." Phillip said: "And so you took the picture of Charlotte Bronte, which is sort of a pretty modern print.

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