This eighteenth century portrait was covered with a layer of sticky tissue and then left for decades, unnamed and unrecorded, buried behind a cupboard door in Olney's Cowper & Newton Museum.
Who is he, and where does he come from?
This wonderful portrait is now at the Courtauld Institute, one of the world’s finest centres for the conservation of paintings.
For the next year a student will work on the picture to rediscover the sitter and conserve the picture for centuries to come.
The restoration cost is expected to be arouns £650 - and the museum doesn't have a budget to cover it...
They are appealing to museum supporters to donate towards the cost. You can do that by clicking here
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