After being consigned to dark storage rooms for up to six decades as the work of an unknown artist, a portrait of a one-armed naval veteran has been reattributed to the celebrated 18th century painter Thomas Gainsborough.
A fundraising drive has been launched to raise £60,000 for extensive conservation work on the painting and its frame before it is hung in the Queen’s House, part of Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG), next year.
