Museums and Institutions

London rare book dealer Peter Harrington sold the copy to an edgy Australian museum

Pieces feature key political figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Neil Kinnock

'D-Day in 80 Objects' tells the story of the famous operation through objects selected by museums in the UK and US

The British Museum has recovered a further tranche of stolen and missing objects from its collection.

Two valuable Bronze Age gold artefacts have been stolen from Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire.

An artwork attributed to a pupil of José de Ribera and offered with an estimate of just €1500 (£1300) is actually by Caravaggio.

The J Paul Getty Museum has acquired 17 drawings dating from the 16th to early 20th centuries from a private collection.

An 18th century bracket clock by the English clockmaker Thomas Hunter Jr (c.1760-70) has been recovered after being stolen 23 years ago.

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a lively 17th century genre painting by Italian artist Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582-1622).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned a sculpture to Iraq following provenance research.

A painting by French Impressionist painter Eva Gonzalès has been acquired by The National Gallery via a private treaty sale from a British collection for a “tax-advantageous price” of £1.49m.

With international institutions keen to rebalance their collections to include more works by female artists, the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced this week that it has bought an early portrait by Sophie Frémiet (1797-1867).