Other strategic loans to fill occasional historical gaps remind us of the amazing old-master paintings still in private collections.
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All along both billionaire brothers used their fortunes to acquire amazingly disciplined collections of paintings of stunning quality and beauty.
On loan from major museums and private collections are paintings by such major British landscapists as John Constable and J.
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The collections of European paintings and sculpture of Henry Frick, Andrew Mellon and other pioneering tycoons, bought when they became rich, were the foundations of America's great national art galleries in New York and Washington.
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Athens' National Art Gallery showcases works from the 14th to the 20th centuries, and is best known for its collections of Greek and Renaissance art, including paintings by El Greco, Tiepolo and Brueghel.
Though the conservator who helped to reveal the painting's true identity called it "the rarest thing imaginable, " speculation is rife that there are other Leonardo da Vinci paintings still at large, possibly lying unknown in private collections.
It included no fewer than 70 paintings and 30 drawings, many of them on loan from public and private collections around the world.
Collections and museums just do not have the space to show all of those paintings.
More than 50 paintings spanning Manet's career have been collected from around the world, from both public collections and private owners.
Of the 71 paintings in a new exhibition in London, 21 come from his native Copenhagen, 15 from other Scandinavian collections and 20 from private collections, principally Danish.
At sales of collections from grandees like Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Amelia, the bourgeoisie bought the oil paintings, bronze sculptures and decorative masterpieces that transformed them into faux aristocrats.
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