It's not enough to have some decent Titians, Mantegna's and Van Dycks hanging on the walls at the palace (and, yes, I know there's a Freud) what's required with all these recent cuts in government subsidies of the arts is some serious hefting behind modern British works.

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Two marvelous Van Dycks dated 1634 hang across from the Rembrandt: Princess Henrietta of Lorraine, attended by a page, and James Stuart, First Duke of Richmond, a beautiful young man with cascading blond locks, attended by his powerful hound and backed up, like Princess Henrietta, by voluminous drapery.

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