British paintings destroyed in Tripoli
June 2 2011
Picture: Art Newspaper
A number of paintings from the Government Art Collection appear to have been destroyed after the British Embassy in Tripoli was evacuated. Apparently, it was a priority to take computers and documents on the plane out, but not the art.
The GAC had 17 pictures on loan to the embassy, including, from left above, Philip Reinagle's 1797 Harrier Killing a Bittern, Edmund Havell's William Stratton, and a landscape in the style of Salvator Rosa.
Hopefully they're all ok, and hanging in some enterprising Libyan's bedroom.
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