Priest's painting is $745,000 van Dyck December 31, 2013 A painting that hung on the wall of a priest's home for more than a decade after he bought it for £400 ($745) at an antique shop has been identified as an Anthony van Dyck portrait worth a thousand times as much. The work, previously dismissed as a copy, was valued at £400,000 ($745,000) after its owner had it evaluated on Antiques Roadshow . It is the most valuable painting to be identified in 35 years of the BBC television program. Canon Jamie MacLeod plans to sell the painting to pay for new church bells. The work was identified when Roadshow host Fiona Bruce, who was making a program about the van Dyck with art expert Philip Mould, saw the painting and wondered if it was genuine. Mr Mould examined it and, after weeks of cleaning and removing a top coat of 18th-century paint, the work was verified by Christopher Brown, a world authority on van Dyck.