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AN art expert turned detective has reunited a famous son with his home town.

Gallery Oldham has been given its most significant Victorian painting in many years: The Broken Pot by Leghe Suthers.

John Lees Suthers was born in Chadderton in April 1855 and was known as Leghe, the old spelling of Lees.

A member of the well-known Lees family of Oldham, his cousin was textile magnate Charles Lees who bequeathed the borough its founding collection of paintings.

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Suthers settled in Newlyn in Cornwall and joined a colony of artists there in the 1880s, regularly sending paintings to the Royal Academy and other exhibitions. He died in April, 1924.

George Bednar from London, an expert on Newlyn paintings, traced the origins of Leghe Suthers back to Oldham.

He felt the gallery should have an example of his work and gene