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Going to Market, Early Morning, painted in 1773 and valued at £8m, was sold by a private seller at Sotheby’s in July. An application by its new owner to remove the painting from the UK has been temporarily blocked by the arts minister, Helen Whately.
“Gainsborough is one of the greatest British landscape artists and his work still wows audiences more than 250 years later,” she said. “This piece is a superb example and I hope that a UK buyer can be found so we can find a new home for this work in our national collection.”
