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London, National Portrait Gallery

  • News Items : Van Dyck’s Self-portrait Joins the National Portrait Gallery 01/05/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : United Kingdom : a Fundraiser Is Launched for Van Dyck, the One for Stubbs Meets its Goal 11/12/2013

    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 (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : A Strange Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in London 12/06/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Acceptance in Lieu for British museums 2005-2007 26/08/2007

    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”.

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