{"id":510557,"date":"2026-07-05T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510557\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:14:08","slug":"painting-hung-at-cornwall-care-home-worth-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510557\/","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":510558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-510557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}