25 years ago

A man who took what he thought was a £40 painting scrounged from a neighbour along to the BBC Antiques Roadshow in Norfolk was stunned to discover the landscape was, in fact, a valuable early work of Dundee artist James McIntosh Patrick. Viewers watched as the name of one of the country’s most respected landscape artists failed to make an impression on the man until the art expert explained that the piece was worth about £5,000£6,000. The painting had been rescued from piles of rubbish.