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Botticelli Painting Banned from Export Will Stay in the UK

A Botticelli painting, *The Virgin and Child Enthroned* (1470s), previously placed under an export ban to keep it in the UK, has been acquired by the Klesch Collection. The work, valued at £10.2 million, will remain in England through a three-year loan to the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. The painting was bought in 1904 by Harriet Sarah Jones Loyd (Lady Wantage) from Italian dealer Elia Volpi, who had acquired it from the Magherini Graziani family.

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Botticelli under UK export ban purchased by Klesch Collection

A Botticelli painting, *The Virgin and Child Enthroned* (1470s), valued at £10.2 million, has been purchased by the Klesch Collection, a British private collection, after the UK government placed an export bar on the work in May 2025. The painting, which sold at Sotheby’s London in late 2024 for £9.7 million, will be loaned to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for three years, ensuring it remains in the UK.

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UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting

The UK government has imposed an export bar on Sandro Botticelli's painting *The Virgin and Child Enthroned* (1470s), valued at £10.2 million. The work was sold at Sotheby’s London in December 2024 for £9.7 million (with fees). The export bar, effective until 8 August, gives a UK gallery or institution time to acquire the painting and prevent it from leaving the country. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has set a recommended price of £9,960,000 plus VAT. The painting, which had been kept at Betterton House in Berkshire since 1944, was previously owned by collector Harriet Sarah Jones Loyd (Lady Wantage) and has not been seen in public for nearly a century.

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