sketch to ceiling murals banquet house on Whitehall Street in London, who met the famous Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (Peter Paul Rubens), will now be exhibited in the Tate Gallery in London. The Museum has had to fight for the creation of a great artist: early sketch for part of the meeting of 6 th Viscount Hempdena who died in January. The family decided to sell Viscount work abroad, but the leadership of Tate believed that this masterpiece should stay in the UK, and has decided to redeem it.

Why is it so important that the work of Rubens remained in the UK? After all, he was a British painter. Everything is simple: ceiling painting, sketch in which a painting by Rubens, had ordered him to Charles I (Charles I), King of England, Scotland and Ireland. It depicts a father Jacob Charles I (James I), voznosyaschiysya to heaven. The painting was ordered to celebrate the union of England and Scotland. Now Banquet House, built by Inigo Jones (Inigo Jones), with Rubens painted the ceiling - the only thing that remains of Whitehall Palace, burned in 1698.

picture, which is called «Glorification James I», was written in 1629. This is the only existing sketch ceiling murals banquet house. The experts evaluated it at 11.5 million pounds, but the owners have agreed to give up her paintings Tate «total» of 6 million. Later the price was able to run for another 300 thousand pounds. The museum has pledged to pay 5.7 million dollars to 30 September inclusive. In June, Tate has announced the collection of funds to purchase a masterpiece. The largest donation made by the National Fund for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (National Heritage Memorial Fund), made 2 million pounds in July and 221 thousand - 30 September. Organization of The Art Fund has made 600 thousand dollars. A Board of Trustees of the Tate Museum allowed to spend 1 million pounds from the budget. In addition, individual board members have also made donations totaling 45 thousand. According to the director of Tate Britain Stephen decares (Stephen Deuchar), now, because of economic difficulties, is quite difficult to collect donations. But he adds that such work is a sketch by Rubens, money is always there. After all, it also is a national treasure.

Now the British Museum is much more difficult task - collected 100 million pounds to in the remaining two paintings Titian (Titian) . If the National Gallery and National Gallery of Scotland will not be able to save this huge amount, the owner of paintings the Duke of Sutherland, will present them for sale.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: guardian.co.uk , dailymail.co.uk , artinvestment.ru