11 years ago Heath Rosselli painted a picture of her friend Evelyn Satterlee as a testament to her courage while have the life life-saving surgical removal of her breast (mastectomy).

The peice of artwork tittled “Evelyn” will go on display in the Louvre in Paris as part of a breast cancer international conference.  The Picture will be featured along side 5 other paintings, which will include one of  Rembrandt’s 17th century pictures.  The Rembrandt is a painting of  Henrickje Stoffels, who was believed to have been suffering from breast cancer.

Miss Rosselli, said “I wanted my portrait to show it is not an ugly thing,”

“The message is that here is a beautiful woman who has been through this trouble and has come out of it, still with a beautiful body and a smile on her face to show her courage and optimism and demonstrate that she is not ugly or hideous.”

Mrs Satterlee, the subject of the painting  is currently working in South Korea as a special needs teacher and is currently unaware that a portrait of her is destined for the Louvre.

The two rare Italian works of Renaissance art by master Sano di Pietro have been hanging unrecognised in a Yorkshire Church for nearly 100 years.

The two paintings were part of an altarpiece which had been sent away for valuation when the Church was renovated, and they have been valued at around £300,000 and are thought to be some of di Pietro’s largest work outside Italy.

The current Earl of Halifax has said that his great grandfather donated the paintings along with other furnishings when the church was built, and believes that the worth of the paintings was forgotten over the years.

The two pictures are currently on loan to the York Art Gallery until the end of March 2009.