A lottery grant of £11.5 million may not be enough to keep the painting at the National Gallery

“The Madonna of the pinks” may have been painted for a nun in Perugia

Private collector vs State in Spain

Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out

The 300 paintings and drawings in the Makins collection include works by Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Burne-Jones

Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989

Change needed in the face of a growing market

There are concerns however about how effective or restrictive this regulation will be