Culture officials in the U.K. issued a temporary export ban on a painting by Bernardo Bellotto to try to keep it from leaving the country:
The U.K. is hoping to keep one of the most expensive European Old Master paintings sold last year inside the country, having secured a temporary export ban that was announced yesterday.. It was sold at a Christie’s evening sale of Old Masters in London last July for £10.6 million and ranked second among the priciest Old Master paintings sold in 2021, according to theThe export ban was placed in order to allow time for a U.K.
Describing the work as “a rare example of one of Bellotto’s masterpieces,” the statement pegged the painting’s value at roughly £11 million. The work, which measures more than six feet wide, marks an important turning point in the young Bellotto’s career, when he began a series of journeys around Italy and received his first royal commission for Charles Emmanuel III, who was King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy.
Bellotto was a native of Venice and a nephew of world-famous painter Canaletto. The painting was recorded in London in 1771, when it was consigned to auction at
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