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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: : National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Artist Maritime Subjects, Portraits: British 18th C 98

Can more be found about Mrs Justinian Nutt and her husband? Who painted their portraits?

Photo credit: : West Suffolk Heritage Service

Other Continental European before 1800, Dress and Textiles, East of England and The Midlands: Artists and Subjects, Portraits: British 16th and 17th C 45

Could a better attribution be found for this portrait of Elizabeth Risby with her daughter Elizabeth and a servant?

Photo credit: : Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Subject or sitter British 19th C, except portraits, Dress and Textiles, Maritime Subjects, Northern Ireland: Artists and Subjects, South West England: Artists and Subjects 25

Completed Can anyone identify the dress of this sitter?

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