National Portrait Gallery leads call to raise £50m to keep Reynolds’ Omai portrait in the UK

Sir Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of Omai has been blocked from export to give institutions time to raise the funds to keep it in the UK and the National Portrait Gallery is leading the efforts.

As reported in Antiques Trade Gazette (issue 2552) the deadline to raise the funds was extended. The…

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