15th-century painting given export bar to prevent it leaving UK

The government hopes an individual or a gallery in the UK can match the asking price of £3.3m for the painting by Dieric BoutsA 15th-century devotional painting by the influential Netherlandish artist Dieric Bouts has been made subject to an export bar in order to prevent it leaving the UK.The work, called St Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child, has been sold to a foreign buyer but the government hopes that an individual or a gallery in the UK can match the asking price of £3.3m. Conti