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Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece


Revealed: Lord Byron’s £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece
Helena Smith in Athens
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Photograph: Glyn Genin/Alamy
Racked by fever, prone to fits of delirium, consumed by his last great passion – the liberation of Greece – Lord Byron lay on his sickbed. It was 18 April 1824. The great Romantic poet would be dead the next day.
“I have given her [Greece] my time, my means, my health,” he is recorded as saying in a moment of lucidity. “And now I give her my life! What could I do more?”
Byron’s death in Missolonghi, the malaria-ridden town where he had spearheaded the Greeks’ revolt against Ottoman rule, induced instant shock, convulsing the English-speaking world. ....

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Mystery over origins of Howard Hodgkin's Indian art collection could see it lost to UK | Howard Hodgkin


Mystery over origins of Howard Hodgkin’s Indian art collection could see it lost to UK
Ashmolean in Oxford turned down chance to buy exquisite paintings and drawings, which may now go to New York
Sultan Ali Adil Shah Hunting a Tiger, c 1660, is in the Howard Hodgkin collection. Photograph: Collection of Howard Hodgkin
Sultan Ali Adil Shah Hunting a Tiger, c 1660, is in the Howard Hodgkin collection. Photograph: Collection of Howard Hodgkin
Sun 11 Apr 2021 03.15 EDT
Indian paintings and drawings had been his lifelong passion and, before his death in 2017, the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin hoped that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean in Oxford – only for the museum to reject his offer amid concerns that some of the works should never have left India. ....

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