Britain's Lost Masterpieces Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

Devon

Dr Bendor Grosvenor and social historian Emma Dabiri travel to Tiverton in Devon to investigate a portrait of Rembrandt in the collection of Knightshayes Court.

Episode 2

Manchester

59 mins

At the Manchester Art Gallery, Dr Bendor Grosvenor discovers a painting of a country gentleman from the 1770s which he believes has been misattributed to Nathaniel Dance. He feels sure it is in fact by the German painter Johann Zoffany, a favourite portraitist of the royal family under King George III. While the painting is restored, Bendor investigates the life of Zoffany, travelling to Florence to see the location of Zoffany's greatest painting, the Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery, Bendor also visits Parma, where Zoffany painted an extraordinary self-portrait. The artist ended his career in India, where he made a fortune, and Bendor goes to look at Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match in Tate Britain unpacking the undercurrent of sexual innuendo Zoffany had filled the picture with. Social historian Emma Dabiri investigates Manchester's support for the abolition of slavery through the history of the gallery's first purchase - a portrait of the black American actor Ira Aldridge. She also discovers the story of the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition of 1857, the largest art exhibition ever held in Britain, and looks into the Manchester Gallery attacks by three suffragettes in 1913.

Episode 3

Petworth

The impressive art collection at Petworth House includes a portrait of a young Cardinal previously attributed to Titian, but it was subsequently downgraded to in the style of Titian, Bendor suspects the original attribution is correct