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pounds420,000 price tag for city artist's arkwright portrait
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Two galleries have launched a joint bid to buy a portrait by the
Derby painter Joseph Wright.
London's National Portrait Gallery and the Harris Museum and Art
Gallery, in Preston, Lancashire, are hoping to add the portrait of
the British inventor and industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright to
their collections.
They have three months to raise pounds420,000 and the appeal has
been kick-started by the charity Art Fund, which has given
pounds100,000 towards the purchase.
The newl...
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