Video: ITV
At 6.30 in the above video is a tale by Peter Ustinov - one of history's greatest raconteurs - about an art historian discovering two previously unknown paintings by Pieter de Hooch.
In my experience, attitudes amongst the British upper classes to questions of attribution haven't changed much.
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