Portrait chipped in No10 among artworks damaged in UK s corridors of power
A portrait of Lord Byron’s daughter was damaged in 10 Downing Street, and a landscape scratched in the Chancellor s flat
A painting of Ada Lovelace was damaged while David Cameron was in No10
Credit: Hulton Archive
Portraits chipped in David Cameron’s Number 10 and cracked with flip charts in ministers offices are among the paintings damaged while hanging in the corridors of power.
Valuable artworks forming Government Art Collection are displayed in the UK’s ministries, embassies and residences to project British soft power.
But works displayed in the Westminster’s most esteemed offices have suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage since 2015, documents have revealed