Is this a fake??
February 4 2019
Picture: National Gallery
Almost certainly not, but The Guardian had a big splash on the suggestion it is by the art historian Christopher Wright. He produces not much evidence, save the haircut of the sitter, which is apparently from the 1960s. Judge for yourself on the high-res image here. Wright is best known for seeing fakes in many places, especially works claiming to be by Georges De La Tour (for example this picture in The Met).
Update - a sharp-eyed reader makes this point:
I am puzzled by the wooden shutter with its studded nails that, totally by coincidence, form the monogram EH.
Yikes!
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