Louvre acquires Alexander Pope bust and Linnell Landscape
March 2 2026
Picture: Louvre
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Spanish art account @Boro_RR has pointed out on 'X' that the Louvre website has uploaded two acquisitions from 2026. This includes a bust of Alexander Pope by Louis François Roubiliac and a landscape The Rise of the River by John Linnell. The bust had failed to find a bidder at Sotheby's in 2025, and the Linnell had previously been in the Berger collection before being sold in 2016 and purchased after the sale by Mr. Christopher Forbes who gifted it to the American Friends of the Louvre in 2020 (where it was subsequently deposited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in 2021).
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