Old master oil painting 'worth £3m' found dumped in Swansea storeroom

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class="breadcrumbs clearfix"><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment"><span property="name">Culture</span></a></li><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art"><span property="name">Art</span></a></li></ol> <h1 itemprop="headline" class=" ">Old master oil painting 'worth £3m' found dumped in Swansea storeroom</h1> <div class="intro"> <p><em>Meleager and Atalanta</em> by Jacob Jordaens was originally believed to be an 18th century copy</p> </div> <ul class="caption meta inline-pipes-list"> <li class="author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name"><a href="/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/author/caroline-mortimer" title="Caroline Mortimer">Caroline Mortimer</a></span> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161031122135/https://twitter.com/cjmortimer">@cjmortimer</a> </li> <li title="25 September 2016 19:42 London"><time data-microtimes="{"published":"1474828931000","display":0,"changed":"1474828931000"}" datetime="19:42, 25 September 2016">Sunday 25 September 2016 19:42 BST</time></li> <li class="comments"> <a href="#commentsDiv" id="comment-count" class="icon-comment"></a> </li> </ul> <div id="gigya-share-btns-1"></div> </header> <figure itemprop="associatedMedia image" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" class="featured-media medium-width"> <meta itemprop="representativeOfPage" content="true"> <meta itemprop="url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20161031122135/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/25/18/jacob-jordaens.jpg"> <meta itemprop="width" content="2048"> <meta itemprop="height" content="1536"> <picture title="jacob-jordaens.jpg">  <source 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version of Meleager and Atalanta in the Prado museum in Madrid, Spain <span class="copyright">Creative Commons</span> </figcaption> </figure> <div class="article-wrapper clearfix"> <div class="main-content-column"> <div class="text-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody"> <p dir="ltr"><span>A 300-year-old painting by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/old-master-reveals-new-image-8210430.html">an old master</a>, thought to be worth up to £3 million, has been discovered in a storeroom in Swansea. </span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span><em>Meleager and Atalanta</em> by Jacob Jordaens, a leading 17th century Flemish painter, is believed to have belonged to the Swansea Museum for nearly 150 years. </span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>The painting, which appears to have been partially painted over by a restorer, was listed on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art">Art UK</a> website along with 200,000 other works but its author was listed as unknown.</span></p> <div class="relatedlinkslist inline-block-related-list inline-block-left"> <h2 class="box-title">Read more</h2> <div class="relatedlinkslist-content" style="min-height: 10px;"> <ul class="related"><li><a data-author="Matilda Battersby..." data-nid="7170401" data-publish_date="03-08-2016" href="/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/art-detective-arthur-brand-stolen-dutch-a7170401.html">How art detective Arthur Brand recovered two multi-million pound pieces of stolen art</a></li> <li><a data-author="Cahal Milmo..." data-nid="6753566" data-publish_date="29-11-2015" href="/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/leonardo-da-vinci-renowned-british-forger-says-he-is-creator-of-100m-drawing-attributed-to-italian-a6753566.html">Leonardo Da Vinci: Renowned British forger says he is creator of £100m drawing attributed to 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and bronze sculpture "Sfera N.3" by Arnaldo Pomodoro seen ahead of a Contemporary Art auction on 7 October, at Sotheby's in London</p>  <p class="credits">REUTERS</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="2"> <h2> <span class="counter">2/30</span>  29 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Street art by Portuguese artist Odeith is seen in Dresden, during an exhibition "Magic City - art of the streets"</p>  <p class="credits">AFP/Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="3"> <h2> <span class="counter">3/30</span>  28 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Dancers attend a photocall for the new "THE ONE Grand Show" at Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, Germany</p>  <p class="credits">REUTERS</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="4"> <h2> <span class="counter">4/30</span>  28 September 2016 </h2>  <p>With an array of thrift store china, humorous souvenirs and handmade tile adorning its walls and floors, the Mosaic Tile House in Venice stands as a monument to two decades of artistic collaboration between Cheri Pann and husband Gonzalo Duran</p>  <p class="credits">REUTERS</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="5"> <h2> <span class="counter">5/30</span>  27 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A gallery assistant poses amongst work by Anthea Hamilton from her nominated show "Lichen! Libido!(London!) Chastity!" at a preview of the Turner Prize in London</p>  <p class="credits">REUTERS</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="6"> <h2> <span class="counter">6/30</span>  27 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A technician wearing virtual reality glasses checks his installation in three British public telephone booths, set up outside the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The installation allows visitors a 3-D look into the museum which has twenty-two paintings belonging to the British Royal Collection, on loan for an exhibit from 29 September 2016 till 8 January 2017</p>  <p class="credits">AP</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="7"> <h2> <span class="counter">7/30</span>  26 September 2016 </h2>  <p> An Indian artist dressed as Hindu god Shiva performs on a chariot as he participates in a religious procession 'Ravan ki Barat' held to mark the forthcoming Dussehra festival in Allahabad</p>  <p class="credits">AFP/Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="8"> <h2> <span class="counter">8/30</span>  26 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Air Power', 1984, is displayed at the Bowie/Collector media preview at Sotheby's in New York</p>  <p class="credits">AFP/Getty</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="9"> <h2> <span class="counter">9/30</span>  25 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A woman looks at an untitled painting by Albert Oehlen during the opening of an exhibition of works by German artists Georg Baselitz and Albert Oehlen in Reutlingen, Germany. The exhibition runs at the Kunstverein (art society) Reutlingen until 15 January 2017</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="10"> <h2> <span class="counter">10/30</span>  24 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Fan BingBing (C) attends the closing ceremony of the 64th San Sebastian Film Festival at Kursaal in San Sebastian, Spain</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="11"> <h2> <span class="counter">11/30</span>  23 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A view of the artwork 'You Are Metamorphosing' (1964) as part of the exhibition 'Retrospektive' of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo at Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. The exhibition runs from 25 September 2016 to 1 January 2017</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="12"> <h2> <span class="counter">12/30</span>  22 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Jo Applin from the Courtauld Institute of Art looks at Green Tilework in Live Flesh by Adriana Vareja, which features in a new exhibition, Flesh, at York Art Gallery. The new exhibition features works by Degas, Chardin, Francis Bacon and Sarah Lucas, showing how flesh has been portrayed by artists over the last 600 years</p>  <p class="credits">PA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="13"> <h2> <span class="counter">13/30</span>  21 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Performers Sean Atkins and Sally Miller standing in for the characters played by Asa Butterfield and Ella Purnell during a photocall for Tim Burton's "Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children" at Potters Field Park in London</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="14"> <h2> <span class="counter">14/30</span>  20 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A detail from the blanket 'Alpine Cattle Drive' from 1926 by artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is displayed at the 'Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Arts' in Berlin. The exhibition named 'Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Hieroglyphen' showing the complete collection of Berlin's Nationalgallerie works of the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and will run from 23 September 2016 until 26 February 2017</p>  <p class="credits">AP</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="15"> <h2> <span class="counter">15/30</span>  20 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A man looks at portrait photos by US photographer Bruce Gilden in the exhibition 'Masters of Photography' at the photokina in Cologne, Germany. The trade fair on photography, photokina, schowcases some 1,000 exhibitors from 40 countries and runs from 20 to 25 September. The event also features various photo exhibitions</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="16"> <h2> <span class="counter">16/30</span>  20 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A woman looks at 'Blue Poles', 1952 by Jackson Pollock during a photocall at the Royal Academy of Arts, London</p>  <p class="credits">PA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="17"> <h2> <span class="counter">17/30</span>  19 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Art installation The Refusal of Time, a collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison, which features as part of the William Kentridge exhibition Thick Time, showing from 21 September to 15 January at the Whitechapel Gallery in London</p>  <p class="credits">PA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="18"> <h2> <span class="counter">18/30</span>  18 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Artists creating one off designs at the Mm6 Maison Margiela presentation during London Fashion Week Spring/Summer collections 2017 in London</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="19"> <h2> <span class="counter">19/30</span>  18 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Bethenny Frankel attends the special screening of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" to celebrate the 25th Anniversary Edition release on Blu-Ray and DVD in New York City</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images for Walt Disney Stu</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="20"> <h2> <span class="counter">20/30</span>  17 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Visitors attend the 2016 Oktoberfest beer festival at Theresienwiese in Munich, Germany</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="21"> <h2> <span class="counter">21/30</span>  16 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Visitors looks at British artist Damien Hirst work of art 'The Incomplete Truth', during the 13th Yalta Annual Meeting entitled 'The World, Europe and Ukraine: storms of changes', organised by the Yalta European Strategy (YES) in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation at the Mystetsky Arsenal Art Center in Kiev</p>  <p class="credits">AP</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="22"> <h2> <span class="counter">22/30</span>  16 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Tracey Emin's "My Bed" is exhibited at the Tate Liverpool as part of the exhibition Tracey Emin And William Blake In Focus, which highlights surprising links between the two artists</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="23"> <h2> <span class="counter">23/30</span>  15 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Musician Dave Grohl (L) joins musician Tom Morello of Prophets of Rage onstage at the Forum in Inglewood, California</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="24"> <h2> <span class="counter">24/30</span>  14 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Model feebee poses as part of art installation "Narcissism : Dazzle room" made by artist Shigeki Matsuyama at rooms33 fashion and design exhibition in Tokyo. Matsuyama's installation features a strong contrast of black and white, which he learned from dazzle camouflage used mainly in World War I</p>  <p class="credits">AP</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="25"> <h2> <span class="counter">25/30</span>  13 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Visitors look at artworks by Chinese painter Cui Ruzhuo during the exhibition 'Glossiness of Uncarved Jade' held at the exhibition hall 'Manezh' in St. Petersburg, Russia. More than 200 paintings by the Chinese artist are presented until 25 September</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="26"> <h2> <span class="counter">26/30</span>  12 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A visitor looks at Raphael's painting 'Extase de Sainte Cecile', 1515, from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence during the opening of a Raphael exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Russia. The first Russian exhibition of the works of the Italian Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino includes eight paintings and three drawings which come from Italy. Th exhibit opens to the public from 13 September to 11 December</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="27"> <h2> <span class="counter">27/30</span>  11 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd perform during Otis Redding 75th Birthday Celebration - Rehearsals at the Macon City Auditorium in Macon, Georgia</p>  <p class="credits">Getty Images for Otis Redding 75</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="28"> <h2> <span class="counter">28/30</span>  10 September 2016 </h2>  <p>Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC Singers at the Last Night of the Proms 2016 at the Royal Albert Hall in London</p>  <p class="credits">PA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="29"> <h2> <span class="counter">29/30</span>  9 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A visitor walks past a piece entitled "Fruitcake" by Joana Vasconcelo, during the Beyond Limits selling exhibition at Chatsworth House near Bakewell </p>  <p class="credits">REUTERS</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="30"> <h2> <span class="counter">30/30</span>  8 September 2016 </h2>  <p>A sculpture of a crescent standing on the 2,140 meters high mountain 'Freiheit' (German for 'freedom'), in the Alpstein region of the Appenzell alps, eastern Switzerland. The sculpture is lighted during the nights by means of solar panels. The 38-year-old Swiss artist and atheist Christian Meier set the crescent on the peak to start a debate on the meaning of religious symbols - as summit crosses - on mountains. 'Because so many peaks have crosses on them, it struck me as a great idea to put up an equally absurd contrast'. 'Naturally I wanted to provoke in a fun way. But it goes beyond that. The actions of an artist should be food for thought, both visually and in content'</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> </ul><div class="ad-mpu mpu5-container"> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> <p dir="ltr"><span>Mr Grosvenor said the work matched another painting by Jordaens of the mythical hunter Atalanta and her lover Meleager which is currently in the Prado art gallery in Madrid, Spain. </span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>He said the Swansea painting was “Jordaens trying out his ideas before he did the one which is now in Madrid”.</span></p> <p><span>The story of the painting will be told during the first episode of Mr Grosvenor’s series <em>Britain’s Lost Masterpieces</em> on BBC4 on Wednesday and will go on display at the museum next month.</span></p> <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2016-09-25T20:42:11+01:00"/> <ul class="inline-pipes-list"> <li> More about: </li> <li><a itemprop="keywords" href="/web/20161031122135/http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/art">art</a></li> 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