Museums and Institutions

'D-Day in 80 Objects' tells the story of the famous operation through objects selected by museums in the UK and US

The British Museum has recovered a further tranche of stolen and missing objects from its collection.

Two valuable Bronze Age gold artefacts have been stolen from Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire.

An artwork attributed to a pupil of José de Ribera and offered with an estimate of just €1500 (£1300) is actually by Caravaggio.

The J Paul Getty Museum has acquired 17 drawings dating from the 16th to early 20th centuries from a private collection.

An 18th century bracket clock by the English clockmaker Thomas Hunter Jr (c.1760-70) has been recovered after being stolen 23 years ago.

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a lively 17th century genre painting by Italian artist Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582-1622).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned a sculpture to Iraq following provenance research.

A painting by French Impressionist painter Eva Gonzalès has been acquired by The National Gallery via a private treaty sale from a British collection for a “tax-advantageous price” of £1.49m.

With international institutions keen to rebalance their collections to include more works by female artists, the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced this week that it has bought an early portrait by Sophie Frémiet (1797-1867).

A self-portrait by artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) has been acquired by Watts Gallery in Compton, near Guildford.

Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE has been appointed as the new director of the British Museum.

Institutions visiting from the US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK boosted demand at the 32nd edition of Salon du Dessin in Paris.

The National Gallery has acquired 'Eucharist' (c.1637-40), a depiction of the Last Supper, by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1664).

Several pictures and one leatherwork portrait have recently gone to institutions in the US and France.