British Heritage

Here's a perfect example of British heritage art which should have been saved for the nation: Sir Edward John Poynter's The Ionian Dance (1895). It sold in London at Bonhams’ 19th Century Paintings sale on 10th July for £301,250. Another masterpiece that went under the hammer was John Atkinson Grimshaw's Glasgow Docks (1883), which fetched £205,250 (CLICK). These are piddling amounts when compared with the £16.5m needed to buy Rembrandt's Rembrandt Laughing (CLICK).