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  1. Two painted portraits side by side, artist vanessa Bell on the left and artist Duncan Grant on the right.
    Vanessa Bell Self-Portrait c.1915. (detail) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund © estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2025; Duncan Grant Self-Portrait [of Duncan Grant] c.1920 (detail) Private Collection © estate of Duncan Grant.All rights reserved, DACS 2026 Source.

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    Tate Britain schedules Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant exhibition

    Organised with Charleston, the exhibition is planned to examine the Bloomsbury artists’ partnership through more than 300 works and a restaging of their Sussex studio.

  2. Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
    Rembrandt van Rijn, Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, 1633. On loan from a private collectionKelly Schenk Source.

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    Rijksmuseum attributes ‘Vision of Zacharias’ to Rembrandt

    The Amsterdam museum says a two-year examination supports its attribution of the 1633 painting, absent from expert study after 1961, to the young Rembrandt.

  3. Through the Looking-Glass: Tracing Barns-Graham’s Multiplicity
    NOTE FROM BARNS-GRAHAM TO BEN NICHOLSON WRITTEN USING HER BACKWARDS WRITING TECHNIQUE, TATE ARCHIVETATE ARCHIVE Source.

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    Trust research revises Barns-Graham’s early exhibition record

    Mattea Gernentz’s placement is confirming works and appearances from archival evidence, including Barns-Graham’s participation in a 1968 Demarco Gallery exhibition identified in a Scottish archive.