Discover All Famend Dutch Art Galleries O

In 1777, the British authorities had the chance to purchase an art collection of worldwide stature, when the descendants of Sir Robert Walpole put his collection up for sale. The MP John Wilkes argued for the government to purchase this “invaluable treasure” and advised that or not it’s housed in “a noble gallery… to be built in the spacious backyard our website of the British Museum”. Nothing got here of Wilkes’s attraction and 20 years later the collection was purchased in its entirety by Catherine the Great; it’s now to be found in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. […]

Discover All Famend Dutch Art Galleries O

In 1777, the British authorities had the chance to purchase an art collection of worldwide stature, when the descendants of Sir Robert Walpole put his collection up for sale. The MP John Wilkes argued for the government to purchase this “invaluable treasure” and advised that or not it’s housed in “a noble gallery… to be built in the spacious backyard our website of the British Museum”. Nothing got here of Wilkes’s attraction and 20 years later the collection was purchased in its entirety by Catherine the Great; it’s now to be found in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. […]