Painting once written off as £20 copy reassessed as £20m Raphael

Madonna composition at National Trust’s Haddo House was spotted by a historian making a BBC TV seriesThe National Trust for Scotland has discovered in one of its stately homes a painting that art historians believe is likely to be a work by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael.The painting, a Madonna composition, had been obscured by discoloured varnish and was attributed to a minor hand. Its potential as a work of one of the giants of art history, as revered as Leonardo da Vinci and Mic