But Simon Dickinson's gallery in St James's is currently hung like a museum, with major works from Fra Bartolommeo to Canaletto, Gainsborough, Stubbs, Turner and Constable which have chosen to avoid a sale at auction.
The tycoons' case will be weakened by the surprise arrest on March 29th, for alleged graft, of two major property developers, reported to be Raymond and Thomas Kwok of Sun Hung Kai Properties, as well as a former high government official, reported to be Rafael Hui.