UK places export ban on £1.2m Hogarth painting

British buyer sought for The Christening, one of the earliest known works by the 18th-century satiristOne of William Hogarth’s earliest paintings satirising the lives of the wealthy in 18th-century England is in danger of leaving Britain unless £1.2m can be raised by a UK buyer.The culture minister Matt Hancock has placed a temporary export bar on Hogarth’s painting The Christening, described as an important precursor of his better known modern moral paintings. Continue reading