“In light of the classification, which highlights the major importance of this drawing while disrupting the organisation of the auction scheduled for Monday, 23 March, given the strong interest expressed by the French Ministry of Culture in its acquisition, and despite the interest shown by several institutions and international collectors, the sellers wish to take the necessary time to pursue negotiations in a private context outside the auction process,” said Arthur de Moras, auctioneer at BEAUSSANT LEFÈVRE & Associés.

This is a rare opportunity to shape research strategy at an internationally renowned institution with the chance to influence research across the UK museum sector. With a strong track record of world-leading research, you will ensure the Museum has one of the world’s most researched, accessible and visible collections. Working closely with the Trustee’s Collections and Research Committee, and over 100 researchers and curators across all Collection Departments, you will lead the development and delivery of a compelling Research Strategy that enriches understanding of the Museum’s collections, supports major projects, and fuels the next generation of researchers.

You will reimagine what it means to be a research-led international museum in the 21st century as the Museum embarks on the biggest redisplay of its permanent galleries in the past 150 years. To achieve this, you will build strong internal and external partnerships at the highest levels, champion research excellence, and secure significant external funding to advance the Museum’s ambitions.

According to the museum, the San Giobbe altarpiece—full name: Madonna and Child Enthroned, Music-Making Angels and Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian and Louis of Toulouse (c. 1478)—is set to receive the most comprehensive restoration of its more than 500-year history. The problems are fundamentally two-fold. First, the painting bears long cracks across its surface due to temperature fluctuations causing the wood to expand and contract. Second, the painting’s original pigments have changed color over the centuries.

The two-year project will initially see experts stabilize the painting’s wooden support. At the same time, Bellini’s altarpiece will be analyzed using ultraviolet fluorescence and infrared imaging to reveal the artist’s original composition and the effects of previous restorations (there have been half a dozen since the early 19th century). Only then will the painting be cleaned, using gentle solvents to remove dirt and old varnish, touched up with compatible and revesible pigments, and protected with a new stable varnish.

Glasgow Life is a charity like no other. Our vision is to improve the lives of everyone in our city. To help us achieve that, we are looking for a Curator (European Art) to join our Museums and Collections team. As Curator (European Art) your will support the research of the 8,000 European art objects held at Glasgow Life Museums and Collections. This post is full-time based at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre and working across our other museum venues including Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and The Burrell Collection. [...]

As a Curator (European Art), you’ll be a part of an established team, reporting to the Senior Curator. You’ll play an essential role in researching and documenting the European Art collection and developing content for public programming. You will develop and manage the delivery of displays, publications and other collections-related projects. Glasgow Life Museums has an internationally significant collection of European art. The collection comprises of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the period 1200 to 1960 including works from the Italian Renaissance, 19th century French Impressionism, and Dutch, and Spanish Old Masters. We take a broad view of Europe and the successful candidate will be expected to be an active participant in our legacies of slavery and empire initiatives.

France Musées, the international consultancy responsible for the development of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, has indicated that in addition to the 600 works in the museum's permanent collection, some 250 works are on loan from France, without providing any further details.

A great deal of secrecy surrounds the works from French public collections temporarily on display in this 24,000 m2 showcase.

None of the French institutions contacted, including the Louvre, Versailles, Beaubourg and Orsay, would say which paintings or sculptures are on loan to Abu Dhabi as part of a partnership worth €190 million over ten years, according to the Cour des Comptes (excluding temporary exhibitions).

Built up over 400 years by the Cavendish family and their descendants, The Portland Collection is vast and varied. The World’s Mine Oyster: Art, Nature and Collecting the Globe explores the stories behind the collection for the first time, revealing how the Cavendish family saw and used the natural world, both at home and across the world. 

For the first time in its history, the Fondation Beyeler will devote an exhibition to Paul Cezanne, a pioneer of modern art and one of the most important artists in the museum’s collection. The exhibition will focus on the last and most significant phase of the artist’s career, highlighting key themes of his later years, among them still lifes, portraits, landscapes and bather scenes. Bringing together around 80 oil paintings and watercolours, the exhibition will bring to life Cezanne’s groundbreaking work as regards form, light and colour – the qualities that have inspired and influenced artists for generations and through to the present day.

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, thought to be lost for centuries, was newly identified during a recent conservation treatment that removed a layer of overpaint on the canvas, revealing the remarkable figure of Saint John the Evangelist in the foreground of the picture plane. The reemergence of the figure—after perhaps centuries of being overpainted—made clear that this is the seminal painting described in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists as the work that launched the young Florentine artist’s career. [...]

Stephan Wolohojian, John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge of the Department of European Paintings, added: “Paintings by Rosso are exceedingly rare, numbering only about two dozen, and many of his most celebrated works remain undocumented or unfinished. The discussion of this painting in Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, often described as the first book of art history, gives the work the added distinction of having been part of art-historical discourse since the discipline’s inception. Executed on canvas and preserved in remarkably good condition, it is the artist’s earliest recorded painting to survive. This work will anchor The Met’s collection of 16th-century religious paintings, an exceptional and complementary group that elucidates key developments in painting for private devotion during the first quarter of the 16th century in Italy.”

This research will examine the collecting, knowledge production, and documentary practices of Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818), one of the most important antiquarian collectors of her time. It will interrogate Banks’s holdings at the British Library and elsewhere from a critical archival perspective, exploring these dispersed collections – and the taxonomies she devised for them – as maps of the social, intellectual, and imperial networks she inhabited.

This project will be jointly supervised by Dr Lucy Brownson and Prof Elizabeth Shepherd at UCL Department of Information Studies (UCL:DIS), and Felicity Myrone, Maddy Smith and Dr Alice Marples at the British Library.  The student will spend time with both UCL:DIS and the British Library and will become part of the wider cohort of AHRC CDP funded PhD students across the UK.

Ary de Vois’s The Artist as Lover (c. 1660s) is an oil on copper painting by the celebrated Leiden school fine painter. Vois’s elegant works are marked by practically invisible brushwork, sharp attention to detail, and enamel-like finishes. A miniature that may once have been paired with a pendant portrait of his wife, this work is the first by Vois in the collection and one of only a few self-portraits in the National Gallery’s repository of Dutch paintings.

This doctoral project investigates the overlooked contributions of migrant labour to British craft and design during the long eighteenth century (c.1688–1837). Drawing on the V&A’s rich collections, uncatalogued departmental card indexes, and external archival sources, the project will reconstruct the creative communities that shaped Britain’s material culture. Using historical, curatorial, and digital humanities methods, the student will uncover both visible and invisible ‘migrant hands’ that contributed to furniture-making, textiles, metalwork, ceramics, and other craft industries.

The project will be jointly supervised by Dr Adam Crymble (UCL), Dr Spike Sweeting (V&A), Dr Jin Gao (UCL), and Dr Jenny Saunt (V&A). The student will spend time at both UCL and the V&A and will join the wider national cohort of CDP-funded researchers.

In Spring and Summer 2026, Nationalmuseum will present a major exhibition on sculptor and draughtsman Johan Tobias Sergel (1740–1814) Sergel was a central figure in Swedish art during the late 18th century and is also considered one of the most important sculptors of his time on an international scale.

The exhibition offers a comprehensive view of Sergel’s life and art—from his early years in Stockholm in the 1760s, through his extended study trips to France and Italy, to his commissions for King Gustav III upon his return to Stockholm. One of the goals of the exhibition is to place Sergel’s life and work in a broader cultural and historical context. His relationships with leading Swedish cultural personalities and political authorities of the time are given significant attention, and his career is portrayed against the backdrop of life in 18th-century Stockholm, Paris, and Rome. Sergel maintained an extensive international network, and the exhibition highlights how important these connections were to his artistic development.

The Senior Researcher, Old Master Paintings will serve a core member and research specialist for the Old Master Paintings department in New York. They will manage the research workflow and produce cataloguing at the highest level for all Old Master Paintings sales, both at auction and private sale.

They will work closely with our network of colleagues in Europe and cultivate their role as a full and active member of the global Old Masters departments.

Close co-operation and good communications with colleagues in the Old Masters and greater Global Fine Arts departments. Using national and international networks to ensure a consistent, client-focused message, delivering a high standard of active client management.

Gainsborough will be the subject of a landmark exhibition marking the 300th anniversary of the artist’s birth. The show will bring together 120 works in a once-in-a-generation tribute to this quintessentially Georgian artist. Reflecting the rich variety of his practice, it will explore the contrast between the glamourous society portraits that made his name and the creative chaos in which he worked behind the scenes.

The Tudors reigned over a period that saw the birth of modern Britain, and in turn, that of British painting. Tate’s first major presentation of Tudor art in 30 years, this exhibition will bring a fresh perspective to this profoundly transformative period. Over 150 exceptional oil paintings, miniatures, works on paper, sculptures and decorative art objects will be brought together, including iconic portraits of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.