Museum acquisitions

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.

Among a group of works from the estate of the late photographer Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull sale was a photo taken at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in the early 1980s.

The Het Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands has acquired one of Vincent van Gogh’s (1853-1890) early portraits for €8.6m (£7.16m).

Following an 18-month conservation and research project at the Yale Center for British Art, an enigmatic double portrait that drew a dramatic competition at auction in 2021 is going on display at its new permanent home of Compton Verney.

Four Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) family portraits acquired under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme have gone go on public display for the first time.

Frederic Leighton’s 'Bay of Cádiz, Moonlight' will go on public display for the first time in 120 years at the artist’s former home after being bought at auction this summer.

The National Gallery in London has acquired a major work by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) from the collection of Isabel Goldsmith.