Sought-After Thomas Gainsborough Landscape Blocked from Leaving U.K.

Unless a British gallery or museum can pay its price tag, a landscape by the seminal English artist Thomas Gainsborough is unlikely to leave the United Kingdom in the near future.
The U.K. has barred the export of Going to Market, Early Morning, a 1773 Gainsborough painting that was bought at Sotheby’s this past July in London for £8 million ($10.3 million). That buyer, whose identity has still not yet been publicly revealed, filed an application to remove the work from the U.K., the