The Art Detectives
TV Show · Reality

Tracking down previously unknown paintings by some of the world's great artists.

2016 · 58m
Starring Bendor Grosvenor, Emma Dabiri

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Swansea
    Bendor and Jacky visit the the Swansea museum store to uncover a valuable lost masterpiece that will not only become a jewel of Swansea museum’s collection, but also rewrite art history. A giant painting of local coal miners prompts Jacky to re-examine the life of the man who painted them, the renowned Polish artist Josef Herman.
    50m
  • EPISODE 2
    Aberdeenshire
    Haddo House in Aberdeenshire may house some of Scotland's greatest lost paintings.
    50m
  • EPISODE 3
    Belfast
    Bendor and Jacky investigate what have long been disregarded as low-value copies of works by Flemish artist, Peter Breughel the Younger, at the Ulster Museum. They also visit the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont-in which a controversial painting once slashed with a knife is now kept in a room away from public view.
    50m
  • EPISODE 1
    Glasgow
    Pollok House, a country house owned by Glasgow City Council and looked after by the National Trust for Scotland, holds a collection of Spanish art --- the legacy of William Stirling-Maxwell.
    50m
  • EPISODE 2
    Derby
    Joseph Wright of Derby was an acclaimed English artist inspired by the Industrial Revolution, and Derby Museum has the best collection of his paintings in the world. Grosvenor and Dabiri peel back the layers of a modern restoration on a landscape painting in the museum's vaults to determine if it is a hidden masterpiece.
    50m
  • EPISODE 3
    Carmarthenshire
    Grosvenor and Dabiri head to Carmarthenshire to investigate two intriguing portraits of a local nobleman and his wife, the Earl and Countess of Carbery, possibly painted by the great Sir Peter Lely in the 17th century. However, Bendor has a hunch that the portrait of the Countess was done by Mary Beale, Britain's first commercially successful female artist.
    50m

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Cast & Crew

  • B‌G
    Bendor Grosvenor
    Host
  • Emma Dabiri
    Host
  • H‌B
    Harry Bell
    Producer

About

The Art Detectives

Reality

Tracking down previously unknown paintings by some of the world's great artists.

Information

Studio
BBC4
Released
2016
Rated
TV-14

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English (Australia)
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