{"id":516212,"date":"2026-04-06T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516212\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:36:08","slug":"extraordinary-discovery-made-in-old-national-trust-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516212\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extraordinary discovery&#8217; made in old National Trust painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reed said the discovery was made at the beginning of a year-long restoration project where infrared reflectography is being used to &#8220;peer through the layers of varnish, dirt, different paint layers, to have a look at the  painting underneath&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was in that moment that we realised the painting as we see it today is not how it originally appeared,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In a corner of the painting a carriage, with occupants, horses and even a little dog, had been painted out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even with the naked eye you can see the wheel of the carriage poking through the upper layers of paint, and almost encircling this figure that&#8217;s been later painted on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reed said the discovery was made at the beginning of a year-long restoration project where infrared reflectography is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-516212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}