A painting bought by an art blogger as part of a pair for £35 has been verified as a work by New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins and worth up to £50,000.
Robjn Cantus, who lives near Cambridge, bought the picture in 2019 when Hertfordshire County Council sold off its mid-20th Century art collection.
It was originally attributed to Vera Cunningham, but BBC One programme Fake or Fortune has now discovered its true provenance.
Mary Kisler, an art historian from New Zealand and the foremost authority on Hodgkins, told the show: "I emphatically think it is by Frances Hodgkins."
The picture bought by Robjn Cantus in 2019 for £35 has been verified as a Frances Hodgkins work
Mr Cantus bought the painting in 2019 at an auction as part of the county council's Pictures for Schools Scheme.
It was one of two in the same lot attributed to Cunningham.
He paid £35 for the pair but wanted only one of them, and the painting that would later turn out to be by Hodgkins was discarded in a barn he used for storage.
When he put a picture it on his blog, someone contacted him to say they thought it was a Hodgkins work, and so he began his quest to verify that – ending up on Fake or Fortune.