Portrait tipped to sell for £500k

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%A painting bought for £400 that was revealed to be a Van Dyck portrait when it was taken along to an episode of Antiques Roadshow is expected to sell for around £500,000 when it goes under the hammer later this year.

The work was bought 12 years ago byFather Jamie MacLeod from an antiques shop in Cheshire and was identified after the show's host, Fiona Bruce, saw it and thought it might be genuine.