A recent announcement by the Georgia Museum of Art of a 17th-century art acquistion came under scrutiny after art historians pointed out that the original work hangs in the U.K. at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum.

Flemish master Sir Anthony van Dyck’s large portrait of Archbishop William Laud was gifted by an Atlanta couple, read a museum press release in mid-January.

Bendor Grosvenor first wrote on his website Arthistorynews.com, that Georgia's acquisition was not the original, adding: “Van Dyck’s portrait of Laud was much copied, and confusion often arises over the various copies and studio versions that were made.”

The Independent then reported: "Van Dyck painted the portrait of Archbishop Laud in 1635 and the sitter donated it to his Oxford College St John’s. It was bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1937 and is listed as the original in the 2004 Yale catalogue raisonné, the definitive list of Van Dyck’s work."

A museum spokeperson told the Indpendent that the press release contained an error in marketing the news. An online version of the press release now reads: "This version of the painting is one of several existing copies by the artist’s studio, after what is believed to be the primary version, at the Fitzwilliam at Cambridge.”

Another version of the portrait (after van Dyck) is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.