Antiques Roadshow guest reacts to valuation of gold watch An Antiques Roadshow guest didn’t know how to react when he was informed that his painting was worth thousands, with the potential to make six figures. Expert Alan Fausel met with a pensioner who brought in an old-fashioned style painting to be appraised on the PBS daytime series. “We received it from my wife's aunt, who lives in New Jersey.
It was in her aunt's estate, and she passed it on to us about 20 years ago,” he explained. “Her husband worked in New York, I understand he was friends with people in the Field and Stream office but beyond that, I really have no idea.” Fausel confirmed that the artist was Lynn Bogue Hunt who was an illustrator at Field And Stream with the piece of art dating back to January 1942.
Read more: Antiques Roadshow guest has ‘tear in my eye’ at value of baseball collection Antiques Roadshow guest ‘floored’ by late aunt’s painting with staggering price tag. (Image: PBS) Born in New York in 1878, Hunt went on to live in Albion, Michigan from about the age of 12 until he moved back to the Big Apple in 1903. Hunt began working as a freelance artist, creating illustrations for things such as books, advertisements and magazines.
Many of his works featured upland game bird hunting and saltwater fishing which were also some of his own interests. Hunt’s final magazine cover for Field And Stream was published in 1951 as he stopped painting the following year because of his fai.
