Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Each episode begins with Grosvenor locating a prospective masterpiece in the digitized collection of Art UK. The restoration work of Gillespie's shop is key to a successful attribution. and Grosvenor's show is called The Art Detectives. Grosvenor maintains that the two series differ in that while Fake or Fortune? looks at privately owned art his programme focuses on paintings in public galleries. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed production of Series 5, planned for Spring 2020. Production resumed in October 2020, only for Grosvenor to catch COVID-19, further delaying the third episode of the fifth series. Grosvenor later confirmed that this episode, not aired until 2022, would be the final episode, and that the fifth series would be the last. ==Episodes==

Series 1 Series one, comprising three episodes, was aired in September and October 2016. Series 2 Series two was aired in September and October 2017. File:Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (by Peter Paul Rubens).jpg|Portrait of George Villiers(attributed to Rubens) File:View of Nomentano Bridge by Joseph Wright of Derby.png|Ponte Nomentano(attributed to Wright) File:Richard Vaughan 2nd Earl of Carbery.jpg|The 2nd Earl of Carbery (attributed to Lely) File:Frances Vaughan, Countess of Carbery (d.1650) by Mary Beale in 1670.jpg|The Countess of Carbery (attributed to Beale) Series 3 Series three was aired in August 2018. Series 4 Series four was aired in October and November 2019. File:George Oakley Aldrich.jpg|George Oakley Aldrich(attributed to Batoni) Series 5 The first two episodes of series five were aired in February 2021, followed by a third in February 2022. == References ==