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2 unusual facts about Francis Haskell


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Haskell, Francis, Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy, Yale University Press, 1980.

Francis Haskell

In 1976 Haskell, who often served on advisory committees for museum loan exhibitions, joined the National Art Collections Fund committee and became one of its most vocal members, defending the purchase of Poussin's Rebecca and Eliezar for the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (the government refused to accept the painting because it had been in the collection of the disgraced Anthony Blunt).



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