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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Dalya Alberge

Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery

Painting in a frame on a wall with the back of two people's heads in the foreground
Members of the public look at Rubens’ Samson and Delilah at the the National Gallery in London. Photograph: Mariano Garcia/Alamy

Doubts about whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah picture in the National Gallery have been revived by new evidence.

Forty-five years after it was bought for a then record price, it is being dismissed as a 20th-century copy of a long-lost painting by the 17th-century Flemish master.

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