Thank the dear Lord that the Harris Smith team were blessed with going on our last overseas trip. This was due to the success of the co-director Jeffrey Harris having a really beautiful last commercial exhibition here in Dunedin. And thank-you kindly to the current public program for celebrating their return to native soil with the reintroduction of an early masterpiece of Jeffrey Harris. This is nicely placed with the philosophy of some Renaissance paintings of the mother and child image from early distribution of the Royal ascension to public museums. This early ascension may have come from the Royal Trust as they seem to be the main holders of Renaissance images. There is however, also a magic ascension of Raphael drawings in the museum archive library at Oxford University. This would also be owned by the crown. Something like crown land. Most London house museums are also on crown land but through observation, the only places other than Oxford who house Renaissance artworks are the National Gallery and Royal Collection. I am not sure how museums were placed in the early part of the 1900's however, I am imagining most of the Tate team who premise may have set these big museums up would be Oxford University educated.
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