As a Republican-led House committee continues to probe the Biden family’s business dealings, Hunter Biden is holed up in his garage working on his art, The Post has learned.
And he seems to be taking his “gift” very seriously.
A short video seen by The Post Tuesday shows the scandal-scarred first son in sweats and Crocs, bent over a drafting table in a garage and wielding a large paint brush above his latest masterpiece.
Suddenly, Morgan Freeman’s voice is heard, in a soundbite from the 2001 movie “Along Came a Spider”: “You’re born with a gift …And what you’re good at, you don’t take for granted. You don’t betray it.”
“What if you do, betray your gift?” asks Monica Potter as Secret Service Agent Jezzie Flannigan.
“Then you betray yourself,” Freeman — as Detective Alex Cross — replies. “That’s a sad thing.”
A source told The Post that the video was intended for “family and friends” as a way to keep them up to date on his latest work.
It’s not clear where the footage was shot, although the paintings in the video each feature the watermark of the Georges Bergès Gallery, Hunter’s SoHo-based dealer who has so far mounted two shows of his intricate watercolors on Yupo Japanese paper.
The most recent show, which opened in December, featured paintings that ranged in price from $75,000 to $500,000.
In the video clip, Hunter, 53, is shown from the back next to a set of colorful squirt bottles of paint and a vintage tricycle.
The new work, which has not yet gone on public view according to the source, features an intricately patterned painting of an Aztec god and a futuristic portrait of a halo-topped man who looks like a colorful robot.
The first son’s flurry of creativity comes amid the ongoing federal investigation into the Biden family’s alleged tax fraud, money laundering and violation of lobbying laws by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, chaired by Republican Rep. James Comer (R-Ky).
Over the last several months, investigators have demanded details on collectors who paid for Hunter’s art.
They have sent two letters to William Pittard, the Bergès Gallery’s Washington, DC, attorney, seeking answers.
In a second letter, sent to Pittard earlier this month, the Committee pushed for the identity of those who bought Hunter’s art in the past.
The letter references the prices of the art, from $75,000 to $500,000, and explains that “the Treasury Department studied the use of high-end art as a means to launder money along with other potential illicit transactions.”
In the March 24 response, seen by The Post Tueday, Pittard has now written to correct the Committee’s “inaccuracies” that Bergès is obstructing the investigation by refusing to name the buyers.
The latest letter suggests that drawing Bergès into the investigation of the Biden family finances may constitute “constitutional overreach.”
“Mr. Berges did not convey a refusal to respond or cooperate,” Pittard writes, adding that the Committee should seek out Biden and his attorney Abbe David Lowell for response to formulate “an appropriate path forward.”
A Committee aide told The Post Tuesday that investigators had received Pittard’s latest letter and “plan to follow up.”
Requests for comment from Pittard and Bergès were not immediately returned Tuesday.
Earlier this month, the Committee found that Hunter’s former sister-in-law and ex-lover was paid Chinese cash in 2017.
Comer exclusively told The Post that the payments to Hallie Biden — totaling $35,000 — were revealed in subpoenaed bank records.
Hallie Biden is the widow of President Joe Biden’s oldest son, Beau, who died in 2015.
The records show Hallie received $35,000 over two transfers in 2017 from Biden family associate Rob Walker, who got $3 million on March 1, 2017, from State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy.
Comer now wants Walker to submit to the Committee’s questions about the Chinese cash, which also allegedly went to President Biden’s brother, James Biden.
Hunter, a former drug addict, is the author of “Beautiful Things,” a 2021 memoir in which he chronicles his struggles with alcohol, drugs and sex.
He has been accused of trying to sell access to his father to foreign businessmen, with some of those alleged dealings detailed in emails and texts found on his laptop, The Post exclusively revealed in 2020.
President Joe Biden has denied profiting from his son’s deals.
In addition to working on his art full time, Hunter has also been participating in a documentary about his work produced by Kevin Morris, a Hollywood lawyer who allegedly ponied up $2 million to pay Hunter’s bill to the IRS last year.
