Lundi 10 août 2020
Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Late last year we had pointed out the launching of a fundraiser at the National Portrait Gallery for the purchase of a Self-Portrait by Van Dyck painted the year before he died when living in England, at the court of Charles I. The work had sold (...)
After remaining in the family of the Count of Jersey since the 18th century, the painting drew much attention when it came up for auction at Sotheby's in 2009, reaching a record price for the artist : 8.3 million pounds. Two English and American (...)
The National Portrait Gallery has just acquired a portrait dated 1792 representing a transvestite. This is the famous Charles de Beaumont, knight of Eon (1728-1810), who led a brilliant military and diplomatic career. He worked notably for Louis (...)
Acceptance in Lieu is the English system which allows payment of inheritance taxes with works of art, an equivalent of the French system of “dation”.
