Marble bust bought for £5 could earn Easter Ross town millions

The marble bust of an 18th Century Highland laird was lost before being found propping open a shed door.

A sculpture bought for £5 by a town council and later found propping open a shed door could be sold for almost £3m.

Invergordon Town Council bought the artwork in 1930, but it later disappeared before it was discovered on an industrial estate in 1998.Read more stories from the Highlands and IslandsHighland Council said it has been approached by an overseas private buyer, via auction company Sotheby's, about purchasing the bust for more than £2.5m.A meeting of the local authority's Easter Ross committee next Monday is to discuss the bid, along with other options for its sale.

Bouchardon created sculptures for the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, the former home of French royalty, and also made the Fontaine des Quatre Saisons in rue de Grenelle, Paris.About 200 years after he made his sculpture of Sir John, it was bought by Invergordon Town Council for £5. Art historian Dr Bendor Grosvenor told BBC Radio Scotland it would be sad if the artwork ended up overseas.

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