Art 'Detectives' Probe ~30,000 Find Art Restorer Is Sure It Is Lost Rembra~dt: Art restorer Mr. Reg Winder went to look at some free picture frames. He came away with a portrait which has now been insured for ~30,000. The picture used to hang on the study wall in the palace Terrace-gardens, Kensington, home of Major Hubert C. Coriette family joke, father's insistence that the portrait, of a young woman, was a rembrandt. No one believed he was right, until yesterday, 18 months after jor Corieette died and 52 year after it was bought for ~5 in London, when art experts said: "Testas have proved it could be a ~embrandt. if it is it will be one of the most uinteresting of them all - the first portrait of the womann ho became his wife. The $30,000 insurance has beeen taken oput pending conclusive examination, Already there has beer a double probe into it sauthenticity, Major Corietta, arctect of many public buildings, including the Kenwington War Memorial, was given the porrait by his wife in 1905. After his death in April last year - he wa 85 - it went with other property to a converted garage store in Clapham. It was there that Mr. Winder of Marylebone, went to look at the picture frames which the Coritette family said he could have for nothing. He found instead "Father's Rembrandt" at one he suspected it to be an original painting of Saskia, Rembrandt's wealthy wife. Mr. Winder took the portrait to his studio where his partner, Mr. Stewart Goodhall, started to worl on it. Photo shows: Nesterer Mr. Goodhall, partner to winder, at work on the portrait of Saskia in his studio yesterday.
Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.
Photo is dated 10-18-1957.
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