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When a painting of Shaw's Bridge by the Belfast artist John Luke fetched many times its expected price at Christie's, the London dealer who bought the picture said, "it could have graced the Tate gallery. One day they might regret not having bought it."Back home in Belfast, Luke's fellow citizens asked "John who?"Like A Good Workman tells the story of a shy, reclusive man, most of whose work was done in the 1930s and '40s.His painstakingly slow and deliberate technique in search of perfection produced only a couple of paintings per year, but what paintings!This is the story of Ulster's forgotten painter.