Huge painting of Rialto Bridge was sold at auction final summer to an abroad buyer but committee says it would be ‘regrettable loss’ for the UKA huge painting of Venice’s Grand Canal by Francesco Guardi has had a temporary export bar placed on it by ministers in an attempt to prevent it leaving the UK.‘Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi’ was owned by successive generations of the Guinness family before it was sold final summer to an abroad buyer at a Christie’s auction for £26.2m.
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Source: guardian.co.uk