Ashmolean wins Rubens oil sketch

THE Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has just acquired an important oil sketch by Sir Peter Paul Rubens thanks to grants from the National Arts Collection Fund and the Resource V&A Purchase Fund.

The £120,000 sketch, funded by a £60,000 grant from each body, shows The Coronation of Henri IV (c.1…

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