Recent Museum Acquisitions Negotiated by Sotheby’s

The Sutherland Necklace

Accepted in lieu of tax and allocated to the Victoria & Albert Museum

Workshop of François Clouet, A Group Portrait of Chaterine de’ Medici with her Children, once owned by Horace Walpole

Accepted in Lieu of Tax and allocated to Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham

Pierre Bonnard, La Dame en Rose or La Femme au Chien (Marthe Bonnard)

Accepted in lieu of tax and Allocated to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Orazio Gentileschi, The Finding of Moses

Sold by Private Treaty Sale and acquired by The National Gallery

Jan Siberechts, A View from Richmond Hill

Accepted in lieu of tax and allocated to Tate Britain

The Autograph Manuscript for Paul Gauguin’s last Literary Work, Avant et Après

Accepted in Lieu of Tax and allocated to The Courtauld Gallery

Robins, Paul/©Victoria and Albert Museum, Lo

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Giovanni Battista Cimaroli, An Allegorical Tomb of John Somers, Baron Somers,Lord Chancellor of England (1651-1716)

Accepted in lieu of tax and allocated to the Victoria & Albert Museum

R.B. Kitaji, The Architects

Accepted in lieu of tax along with 174 other paintings, prints, and sculptures and allocated to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Three sketchbooks by Alfred Wallis

Sold by Private Treaty Sale and acquired by Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Tate

The Spetchley Bindings

Accepted in lieu of tax and allocated to the Victoria & Albert Museum