Forget old copies of celebrity magazines. One GP clinic in the UK is raising the bar for waiting-time entertainment by displaying a rare multi-million dollar painting.

Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria is currently wowing staff and patients at the Pocklington Group Practice in East Yorkshire.

Painted around 1615-17, the portrait is on loan from the National Gallery, which paid around $7 million (£3.6 million) for the piece last year.

It will spend nearly two weeks at the practice as part of the gallery’s partnership with the charity Paintings in Hospitals, which is committed to using art to support better health and wellbeing.