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Art can capture truth — but sometimes, truth doesn’t want to be captured.
In the spring of 1979, police discovered a renowned portrait artist dead inside his studio in Providence, Rhode Island. His final painting sat unfinished — a portrait of his late wife, whose death years earlier had already been ruled an accident.
But when the painting was restored decades later, conservators found something beneath the paint — a second portrait, hidden under layers of oil and varnish.
And in that image, the woman wasn’t dead.
She was smiling.
They call it The Painter’s Widow.
