Museums and Institutions

The Château Royal de Blois in France has launched a fundraising campaign to buy a terracotta bust of Louix XIII's brother Gaston d'Orléans.

Arts charity Jerwood Foundation has purchased another Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) artwork.

Yorkshire museum needs the final £600,000 by August 27 to save a Barbara Hepworth sculpture

A crowdfunding project by Bristol Museums Development Trust to bid for JMW Turner’s 'The Rising Squall, Hot Wells from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol' (1792), has reached in excess of £100,000.

Jewellery specialist Geoffrey Munn has placed his personal collection of historical jewels on permanent loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A rare self-portrait by William Dobson (1611-46) has been jointly acquired by Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery in a £2.37m private treaty sale brokered by dealer Hazlitt.

A rediscovered portrait of author George Eliot will go on display at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery.

Sutton Coldfield dealer Thomas Coulborn & Sons has sold another artwork to a US museum following a major art fair.

The huge V&A East Storehouse opens this weekend giving the chance to view many of its items and objects for the first time.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York buys 18th century reverse engraved glass picture

The National Gallery in London has acquired two Old Masters, one of which is a remarkable 16th-century altarpiece bought for £16.4m in a private treaty sale brokered by Sotheby’s.