‘Once-in-a-lifetime discovery’: 400-year-old Dutch masterpiece discovered in the Blue Mountains

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A 400-year-old painting unearthed in the Blue Mountains and long thought to be a copy may be worth up to $5 million after art historians confirmed it was a 17th-century Dutch masterpiece.

, which called him one of the “greatest masters” of still-life painting.

“Gerrit painted in the style of his father but due to an early death at the age of 25, his career was a short one,” Pinchin said. “His signature is very similar to his father’s and his paintings were attributed to his father until 1945.”’s creator are continuing, with art experts suggesting father and son may have worked together on the painting, which would push its value into the millions of dollars.

“It does look possible it could be a collaboration between the father and the son and as such, it does fall into a very interesting group of paintings that are very few in number.”

 

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