A striking painting stolen over 40 years ago is to go on display in Scotland for the first time as part of a new exhibition. For the first time ever in Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland is exhibiting "one of the finest and most significant" collections of drawings and watercolours direct from Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Home to the Devonshire family for almost five centuries, Chatsworth House is home to one of Europe's most important private art collections.
Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House will take over the lower galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy building from Saturday. READ MORE: Artwork produced in Scottish prison goes on display at leading venue 'Once in a lifetime' Turner exhibition coming to Scotland As part of the exhibition, the striking double portrait painting of featured artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck will make its Scottish debut. The intricate artwork by Flemish artist Erasmus Quellinus II was taken whilst on loan to an art gallery in Eastbourne in 1979.
It was remarkably tracked down by the Belgian art historian, Bert Schepers, who identified it at a small regional auction house in Toulon, France in 2021. Since then, a team who specialise in recovering lost artworks worked hard to get it back to its owner. The double portrait was reinstated at Chatsworth earlier this year.
The exhibition will feature almost 50 rarely-seen drawings by some of the most famous names in European art, including Albrecht Dürer, Hans .