Museum acquisitions

The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund have successfully raised £3.8m after a public appeal to save Barbara Hepworth’s 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red'.

Half a dozen artworks were saved for the nation in the past year and are on display at museums across the UK.

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

London’s Natural History Museum has acquired a newly identified dinosaur specimen from Mayfair dealership David Aaron.

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.

A First World War roll of honour brass plaque, that had been made into a coffee table, has returned to South Shields after 50 years away with the help of Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter.

A Victorian silver centrepiece sculpted by Alfred Brown for Hunt & Roskell has returned to its ancestral home after more than 120 years.

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.

Museum and Art Fund launch fundraising to save Barbara Hepworth sculpture

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

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.