
Botticelli Masterpiece: Virgin and Child Enthroned Faces UK Export Bar
A rare early Botticelli painting of the Virgin Mary, valued at £10.2 million, has been temporarily barred from export by the UK government, offering a last chance…
13 May 2025
A rare early Botticelli painting of the Virgin Mary, valued at £10.2 million, has been temporarily barred from export by the UK government, offering a last chance…
13 May 2025
A sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s most lauded 20th-century artists, has been placed under a temporary export bar…
28 November 2024
An export bar has been placed on a £2.9 million chandelier by the Swiss/French artist Alberto Giacometti. This will allow time for a UK institution to acquire the work.
18 July 2023
Rebecca Pow, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Tourism and Heritage in Boris Johnson’s government has made her first move since his election by putting into place a temporary export bar on The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne by JMW Turner. It is hoped that the work can be saved for the nation.
3 August 2019
John Glen the UK’s Arts Minister has placed a temporary export bar on an iconic Salvador Dalí and Edward James designed sofa known as ‘Mae West Lips’.
22 November 2017
The very first eyewitness representation of Niagara Falls, a 1762 topographical watercolour by Thomas Davies, is at risk of being… Read More
20 August 2015
The UK department for culture has taken the unprecedented step of extending a deadline over the export of the Egyptian… Read More
19 August 2015
Campaigners fighting the export of the Sekhemka statue – an historic work of art sold by Northampton Borough Council for… Read More
28 July 2015
An important Cézanne painting that has been on long-term loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge for almost 30 years is… Read More
24 June 2015
British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the painting ‘The Garden of Eden with the… Read More
6 December 2014
A last ditch chance to raise the £16,500,000 is needed to keep a newly discovered Rembrandt painting in the UK…. Read More
4 August 2013