Goya To Impressionism: Masterpieces From The Oskar Reinhart Assortment
In 1777, the British government had the opportunity to buy an art assortment of international stature, when the descendants of Sir Robert Walpole put his collection up for sale. The MP John Wilkes argued for the government to buy this “invaluable treasure” and suggested that it’s housed in “a noble gallery… to be constructed within the spacious garden of the British Museum”. Nothing came of Wilkes’s enchantment and 20 years later the gathering was purchased in its entirety by Catherine the Great; it is now to be found in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Unlike comparable museums in …
Goya To Impressionism: Masterpieces From The Oskar Reinhart Assortment
In 1777, the British government had the opportunity to buy an art assortment of international stature, when the descendants of Sir Robert Walpole put his collection up for sale. The MP John Wilkes argued for the government to buy this “invaluable treasure” and suggested that it’s housed in “a noble gallery… to be constructed within the spacious garden of the British Museum”. Nothing came of Wilkes’s enchantment and 20 years later the gathering was purchased in its entirety by Catherine the Great; it is now to be found in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Unlike comparable museums in …