Christies Old Master sales from Portland Collection

At Christie’s, £4.4 million of Old Masters were sold from the Portland collection – the name given to the treasures inherited by the late Anne Cavendish Bentinck, the last Duke of Portland’s daughter and one of Britain’s wealthiest women, who died unmarried nearly two years ago. One of the stars of the collection was a highly-charged, nocturnal nativity scene, The Adoration of the Shepherds by the northern Caravaggist, Gerrit van Honthorst, which sold for a record £1.1 million.

Christie’s had earlier taken £8.6 million for items of jewellery from the Portland collection, which will all, no doubt, go towards running the estates of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, the family seat. 

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/8200987/Art-Sales-Records-fall-in-quests-for-the-best.html