From the BBC:
A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII - hanging in a West Midland council hall - to be identified as a famous missing artwork. Adam Busiakiewicz, who works as a consultant for famous auction house Sotheby's, said that when he saw a photo of the work hanging in the Shire Hall, Warwick, it "just stood out to me". After inspecting it personally to test his theory, he confirmed the artwork was created for tapestry maker Ralph Sheldon and dated back to the 1590s. It was one of a collection of 22 portraits made for Sheldon, but the whereabouts of only a handful were known.(Read more.)
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