The Last Supper painting, thought to be by Titian Courtesy of St Michael and All Angels, Ledbury Parish Church Who would have thought that you could discover a 16th-century Venetian masterpiece "of Titian" hiding under a pile of scum in a church in Herefordshire? Yet that’s exactly what Ronald Moore, an expert on Italian Renaissance art, says he has done. For more than 100 years, The Last Supper languished in Ledbury Parish Church, to which it had been donated in 1909. But after his restoration effort, and the discovery of an inscription " TITIANVS", Moore proclaimed this could be a work by Titian, his sons, or his school. It was accompanied by a letter from John Skippe, its former owner, in 1775. In it, he describes a purchase from a rich Venetian family of a monastic commission, the "best-preserved picture of Titian". Together with the inscription and other evidence, this prompted Moore's view that it came from Titian’s studio.