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All the paintings featured in BBC's Britain's Lost Masterpieces were found on Art UK. Public collections around the country have many more artworks in need of research

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Photo credit: : The Fitzwilliam Museum

Artist Portraits: British 18th C 9

Could this be a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller of George Granville, 1st Lord Lansdowne (1666–1735)?

Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLeod of Geanies

Photo credit: : The Highlanders' Museum

Artist Military History, Portraits: British 18th C, Portraits: British 19th C, Scotland: Artists and Subjects 9

Could this be a portrait by Henry Raeburn?

Artist Portraits: British 20th C, South West England: Artists and Subjects 8

What more could we establish in relation to this portrait, possibly of a ballerina?

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