BBC's Antiques Roadshow returned to one of the grandest houses in Wales, Powis Castle, during the episode that aired on Sunday, July 2. The show saw guests share their stories behind a whole range of items, including a ventriloquist's dummy, a 300-year-old love token, a gold brooch in the shape of a bird, and an oil painting detecting Scottish islands.
The oil painting in question had a rather lovely and unassuming story behind it, leaving the guest that bought it at a charity shop for £25 shocked by its valuation. Introducing the piece of art, a thrilled Grant Ford explained: "This is such an immediate, fluid, colourful painting, I'd love to be able to paint just like this. It really is a confident, colourist painting, now, it's an oil on canvas and it's clearly signed lower right, Cunningham."
Asking the guest how she came to own it, she replied: "So I bought this painting 10 years ago, it's a Scottish scene, a peninsula on the west coast of Scotland and we'd all had a family holiday there.
