Museums and Institutions

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.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86).

Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

A painting by British artist Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713) purchased by Tate in 1994 has been returned to the heirs of Belgian Jewish art collector Samuel Hartveld following a decision by the Spoliation Advisory Panel.

BADA Friends has supported the purchase of a footstool for Temple Newsam in Leeds.

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s.