Titian masterpiece comes to London National Gallery for 100 million pounds fundraising drive
Titian's Renaissance masterpiece Diana and Actaeon has gone on show at the National Gallery in London to help accelerate a campaign to keep it in Britain.
The London public has just four weeks to view the painting, which is on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland.
The galleries need to raise £50 million by New Year's Eve to buy the mid-16th century work from the Duke of Sutherland to prevent it being sold abroad. That is one third of its estimated value on the open market.
But to date only £1 million has been publicly pledged, from the charity the Art Fund. The galleries have decided to keep the true state of fundraising to themselves...
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The London public has just four weeks to view the painting, which is on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland.
The galleries need to raise £50 million by New Year's Eve to buy the mid-16th century work from the Duke of Sutherland to prevent it being sold abroad. That is one third of its estimated value on the open market.
But to date only £1 million has been publicly pledged, from the charity the Art Fund. The galleries have decided to keep the true state of fundraising to themselves...