Is the boy in this 400-year-old painting wearing a pair of Nike trainers? Art lovers believe they have spotted proof that time travel must exist

A 400-year-old gallery portrait appears to show a young boy wearing a pair of Nike trainers, it has been claimed.

The portrait by Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol, at the National Gallery, London, depicts a pensive-looking eight-year-old boy holding a goblet.

But amused tourists pointed out the boy appeared to be wearing a pair of Nike trainers.

Mother Fiona Foskett, 57, spotted the anomaly while visiting the London museum with her daughter 23-year-old daughter Holly.

Mrs Foskett, from the Isle of Wight, said the trainers ‘really stood out’ and joked that the boy was a ‘time traveller’.

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