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National Portrait Gallery (Reynolds Picture)

Volume 886: debated on Friday 14 February 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will now recommend a special purchase grant for the acquisition by the National Portrait Gallery of the portrait of Sterne by Reynolds.

The Government would not be justified in providing by special grant the very large proportion of the purchase price which remains outstanding beyond what the gallery had been able to make available.