Museum acquisitions

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.

A striking picture by one of the most prominent but then forgotten British female artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries appeared at a Cheshire auction.

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.

Poole Museum has emerged as the buyer of a work on paper by John Piper (1903-92) that sold at a Roseberys auction last year.

A bible written and illuminated by the Sarum Master has returned to Salisbury Cathedral 700 years after being written there.

The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket has put on display a portrait of Charles II which it bought at auction earlier this year.

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has acquired a Fra Angelico (fl.1417-55) Crucifixion scene which was blocked from export following its sale at Christie’s last year.