A temporary export bar has been placed on Le Rêve de L’Artiste by Jean-Antoine Watteau. The historic painting once belonged to Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole…
2 September 2024
Helen Whately the Arts Minister has placed an export bar on Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘Going to Market, Early Morning’ in the hope that a UK gallery or museum can acquire the work for the nation.
30 December 2019
A temporary export bar on Millais’ ‘Ferdinand Lured by Ariel’ has been put in place by Arts Minister Rebecca Pow
19 August 2019
An outstanding painting by Claude Monet ‘Le Palais Ducal’ 1908 is at risk of going abroad unless a UK buyer can be found . The picture valued at more than £28 million is one of a number of the artist’s works depicting Venice.
10 August 2019
Michael Ellis the Arts Minister has placed a temporary export bar on Ehrenbreitstein, a painting by JMW Turner, to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The painting is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £18,533,750 (plus VAT of £306,750).
1 February 2018
The French government has put a temporary export bar on a recently uncovered double-sided drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
5 January 2017
A sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century is at risk of being exported from… Read More
25 February 2016
The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has put a temporary export bar on ‘Portrait of a Young Man in a Red… Read More
24 December 2015
The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has ordered a temporary export ban on Raphael’s “Head of a Young Apostle”, (c. 1519-1520)… Read More
5 April 2013
