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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 2226102, member: 56&quot;]The British TV series &quot;Fake or Fortune&quot; worked on a Van Dyke that had been over painted.&nbsp; The restorer used a scalpel to scrape away the over paint.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are apocryphal stories of masterpieces being over painted with inconsequential images to hide them in times of unrest... and then going missing.&nbsp; If such a thing happened, I would guess the surface of the original was prepared in a way that would facilitate recovery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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