A 400-year-old painting unearthed in the Blue Mountains and long thought to be a copy may be worth up to $5 million after art historians confirmed it was a 17th century Dutch masterpiece.
There is a bit more background in the Dutch article on the discovery.
Kunstwerk in Australische herberg blijkt van Nederlandse schilders
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