'Test your Connoisseurship' - it's harder than it looks
October 31 2011
Picture: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Following my first 'Test your Connoisseurship' on a detail of Gainsborough's Portrait of Captain Thomas Mathews, above, a reader writes:
I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I actually grew up with a later copy of this family portrait in our dining room, and yet still didn't get the answer right. I had got as far as guessing that it was possibly by Gainsborough, but internet image searches for "Unfinished Gainsborough" produced nothing. The answer was alas rather closer to home than I realised...
I think this is one of the best emails AHN has had. Thanks!
