Last weekend The Observer ran a story about a groundbreaking new AI analysis of the ‘Samson and Delilah’, which has shed new light on this decades-old controversy.

Today the newspaper has published our response.

For decades, The National Gallery has been deflecting common sense questions about the authenticity of the Samson and Delilah, one of its most prized paintings.

But they will struggle to ignore groundbreaking new AI analysis of the painting, showing it is overwhelmingly unlikely that the painting is by Rubens.