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Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post

A historian spots the work from the 1590s in the background of a photo shared on the social media site.

A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII - hanging in a West Midland council hall - to be identified as a famous missing artwork. The Warwick-born, London-based historian then alerted the local authority to what he suspected it had in its building, with Warwickshire County Council inviting him to take a look, which he did with the aid of a stepladder. The missing work's journey is not fully clear, but Sheldon's portraits hung at Weston House in Long Compton, Warwickshire, before being sold at auction, with the location of the majority unknown to this day.

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