{"id":780152,"date":"2026-07-05T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:41:08","slug":"painting-hung-at-cornwall-care-home-worth-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780152\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting hung at Cornwall care home &#8216;worth thousands&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A painting which has hung in a hallway at a care home for decades could be worth thousands, according to experts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting at St Teresa&#8217;s Care Home in Marazion, Cornwall, appeared to be the work of renowned Cornish painter Stanhope Alexander Forbes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leonard Cheshire, which runs the home which supports up to 27 disabled adults, said the artwork piqued the interest of a &#8220;new, art-loving member of staff&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said it took the painting to the BBC&#8217;s Antiques Roadshow tour at the Dartington Estate in Totnes, Devon, in May, where experts valued the piece, titled Taking a Rest, A Girl Seated on a Stool, at &#8220;several thousand pounds&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A painting which has hung in a hallway at a care home for decades could be worth thousands,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-780152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}