10 years late, £500,000 of art is saved for the nation
More than 50 works of art, nearly lost to the nation through forgery and deception, have been received by the National Galleries of Scotland.
The six oil paintings and 51 watercolours and drawings by the Scottish 19th century painter David Roberts, worth more than £500,000, have been given to the nation by the Art Fund, the UK’s leading art charity.
However, they nearly never made their way north of the border. The paintings belonged to a devoted collector of and authority on Robert’s work, Helen Guiterman. He had been largely forgotten until she re-established his reputation with 30 years of painstaking research.
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