I Bought a Vermeer - Buying an old painting and finding a remarkable signature. 

In this first episode I tell the story of finding and buying a strange old painting and finding what appears to be an overpainted signature of one of the most famous of old-master painters, Johannes Vermeer.
I knew virtually nothing about Vermeer or the Dutch Golden Age when I found myself locked down with this very strange painting. So, this is very much the story of how I attempted to work out whether the painting is a copy, a forgery or a long-lost masterpiece, by educating myself on the peculiarities of old paintings and the unique techniques of Vermeer in particular.