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Style Icon - 200 years B.C.

Style Icon - 200 years B.C.

The Torc is an exceptional piece of craftsmanship, even by today’s standards and two thousand years ago it would have been even

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Medieval panel show

Medieval panel show

An exquisite pair of late 15th-century altar paintings, on oak panels, believed to have furnished a chapel at Westminster Abbey

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Scottish beauty goes public

Scottish beauty goes public

An exceptional portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton (1733-1790) by the Scottish painter Gavin Hamilton (

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Ashmolean unveils acquisitions

Ashmolean unveils acquisitions

The selection includes gifts, bequests and purchases of national importance, along with others of more local interest.  Da

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Coleridge archive saved

Coleridge archive saved

Formerly  preserved in family ownership at The Chanter’s House, Ottery St Mary, Devon,it has now been purchased for the na

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Tate to hang Hayman

Tate to hang Hayman

Samuel Richardson, the Novelist (1684-1761), Seated, Surrounded by his Second Family, 1740-41, will go on display at T

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Steamboats saved

Steamboats saved

This collection, at the Windermere Steamboat Museum, is the most significant of its kind anywhere in the world and includes the

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John Donne secured

John Donne secured

Painted in about 1595, the John Donne work has been the subject of a major National Portrait Gallery appeal since Janu