For period properties, you might be better off with a nicely proportioned pair of french doors — the wall in between can be used to hang a painting.

Asked where she wished to hang the painting after its return, she gestured to the wall behind her sofa.

The three-dimensional altars are often designed to allow the placing of a sculpture although sometimes they served to hang a painting.

It also emerged that, in spite of his denial, the artist did hang the paintings himself.