Until recently, The Embarkation of St Helena in the Holy Land was attributed to his contemporary Andrea Schiavone.

A painting in the Victoria and Albert Museum has been found to be a work by Italian master Jacopo Tintoretto, BBC News reported.

Until recently, The Embarkation of St Helena in the Holy Land was attributed to his contemporary Andrea Schiavone.

But new analysis of the work has revealed it as one of a series of three paintings by Tintoretto, depicting the legend of St Helena And The Holy Cross.

The error was uncovered during work on a project to catalogue continental European oil paintings in the UK.

Detailed records of more than 1,000 paintings have so far gone online as part of the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (Nice), which aims to catalogue and digitise around 22,000 pre-1900 artworks of continental European origin held in public collections in Britain.

The work by Tintoretto (1518-1594), one of 200 paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum to be reattributed or re-identified, forms part of an exhibition at the V&A which highlights 10 of the most interesting discoveries.