{"id":858485,"date":"2026-08-17T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858485\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:10:24","slug":"museum-unveils-newly-restored-widow-of-glencoe-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858485\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum unveils newly restored Widow of Glencoe painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting is not signed and the only clue to who they might be is a motif called a monogram. Glencoe Folk Museum said it was believed the painter may have been an artist called James Goldingham. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a record of the artwork being exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1881.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The museum said Egan, Matthews &amp; Rose had carried out &#8220;incredible restoration work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson added that further research would be done to confirm the artist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glencoe Folk Museum, which is housed inside two heather-thatched cottages in Lochaber, was set up more than 50 years ago by local women who stood in front of bulldozers to save the cottages from demolition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is home to 6,000 artefacts and its collection includes Jacobite relics and memorabilia from the two World Wars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work on a \u00a33m revamp started last month and the new-look museum is set to open next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The painting is not signed and the only clue to who they might be is a motif called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-858485","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\/858485","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=858485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}