One of the few who dared was the young British painter Bridget Riley.
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The estate of British painter Lucian Freud has bequeathed works by Corot and Degas to the nation, under the government's acceptance in lieu scheme.
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The Studio Museum provides the most interesting historical fare, including a wonderful pair of 1816 portraits of Haitian princes by the British painter Richard Evans.
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Charles Hope, the foremost British expert on the greatest painter of the Venetian Renaissance, for example, has written no fewer than 24 learned papers on his life.
Although Guardi is best known today as a vedutista, or view painter, the British aristocrats on their "Grand Tour" preferred the near-photographic precision of Canaletto's views to take home as souvenirs.
Besides Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Murakami, Rauschenberg and Prince, we included perennial bad boys Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, as well as other young talents such as figurative painter John Currin, British sculptor Rachel Whiteread and multimedia pioneer Matthew Barney.
"George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life, " which opens Saturday at London's Royal Academy, is the first-ever British exhibition of this major 20th-century painter.
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Since he graduated from Oxford in 1977, he has been a painter, an arts editor for British Vogue, an architect, a writer, a curator for, among other institutions, the Metropolitan Museum, a creative right hand to the photographer Mario Testino and an award-winning scenographer, costumer and, now, director.
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Mr Walker, who is a painter and decorator, said he was now waiting for the British Museum's treasure valuation committee to tell him what he will receive.
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