Painting Bought at Antique Shop for £400 Is Found to Be a Van Dyck Father Jamie McLeod, a priest who runs a religious retreat in rural Derbyshire, England, became curious about the value of a painting he had bought at an antique shop in Cheshire about a dozen years ago, and brought it to the experts on the British version of the television program "Antiques Roadshow." He was in for the kind of surprise that visitors to the show dream about: the £400 he had spent in 2001 (about $575 at the time) bought him a lost work by Anthony van Dyck, the 17th-century Flemish painter who flourished in England at the court of King Charles I. The painting, a portrait of a Brussels magistrate, is estimated to be worth £400,000 (about $660,000). The Telegraph reported that the work was the most valuable painting to have been identified in the show's 36-year history. The painting was identified after the show's host, Fiona Bruce, recognized elements of van Dyck's style. She was, at the time, making a television program with Philip Mould, an expert who had identified three misattributed works by van Dyck in 2010 and 2011. Mr. Mould suggested that Father McLeod's painting should be restored, and its attribution was then confirmed by Christopher Brown, another van Dyck authority. The painting is believed to have been a study for a 1634 painting of seven magistrates. The finished work was destroyed in 1695. Father McLeod said on the program that he planned to sell the painting to buy a new set of bells for the church at his retreat in Whaley Bridge. "It's been an emotional experience, and it's such great news," he said. It's wonderful that new church bells hopefully will be pealing out to commemorate the centenary of the ending of the First World War in 2018.