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A pair of paintings by Pompeo Batoni reunited in Newcastle
19/2/26 - Acquisition - Newcastle upon Thyne, Laing Art Gallery - As every year, the reading of the report by Arts Council England on works acquired by British museums through the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Scheme or the Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) offers us the opportunity to revisit certain enrichments that had escaped our notice. After the two portraits by Reynolds for Waddesdon Manor (see the news item of 10/2/26), we turn to the Portrait of Mrs Martha Swinburne by Pompeo Batoni (ill. 1), very logically attributed to the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne (north-east England). The effigy, from the estate of Sir Brooke Boothby, there joins its pendant, the portrait of her husband, the writer Henry Swinburne (ill. 2), which entered by bequest in 1949.
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