An incredibly rare study by Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden is at risk of being sold abroad unless a UK buyer can be found. Arts Minister Michael Ellis has placed an export bar on a 500 year old drawing worth £11.4 million in a bid to keep it in the country.
The work, A Young Man Standing, by Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden, is one of only 28 drawings by the artist known to survive and his only drawing not held in a museum collection.
The notebooks of Charles Darwin’s mentor, Sir Charles Lyell, are also at risk of export, unless a buyer can be found to match the £1.4 million asking price.
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has prevented the sale of notebooks by Sir Lyell – the renowned Scottish geologist who influenced Charles Darwin – in a bid to keep the important archive in the UK.