In fact I know more about old paintings than he did.
Perhaps old paintings were best seen in bad light, he thought.
"A fine old painting such as this must not get damp."
If she hadn't been wearing modern dress, he would have said it was an old painting.
"Yes - it looks like an old painting I saw once."
It is now a major museum of old Dutch paintings.
He carried the bag and the old painting with the funny face out of the room.
It is said to be the oldest such painting in England.
The 1880 scene was taken from an old painting of the falls when they were a major industrial water power source.
I saw the risen Christ in paintings old and new.
