U.K. Bans Export on $10 M. Sargent Painting: ‘It Would Be a Huge Loss’

The U.K. government has placed a temporary export ban on a John Singer Sargent painting of a 19th-century British aristocrat worth £7.5 million ($10 million). Officials said they are hoping that a British buyer will pay for the work in order to keep it from leaving the country
Sargent painted the portrait, titled Arthur Ramsay, The Earl of Dalhousie (1899), during a period when he lived in the U.K. Commissioned by the Arbroath district tenantry, the painting depicts a 21-year-old nobleman,