How very gratifying finally to be proved right

TV ART expert Philip Mould routinely embarrasses his fellow art dealers by parading the gems they failed to recognise as such before their stricken eyes. Philip’s own impeccable judgment was further vindicated in Fake Or Fortune? when he found that a Constable painting he’d sold for the paltry sum of £35,000 was actually worth £2million – as he’d long believed.

It was very much a case of “I told you so” but how he must have wished it had all been sorted out much earlier – for the sake of the commission if nothing else.