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London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m
The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection
The National Gallery is celebrating its bicentenary with the acquisition of a most mysterious painting, an altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and two saints, dating from 1500-10. The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret and Two Angels was bought for just over $20m (around £16m at the time), funded by the American Friends of the National Gallery London. Names that have been proposed in the past include Jan Gossaert, Aert Ortkens, Jean Hey, the Master of Saint Giles, and followers of Hugo van der Goes or Juan de Flandes.
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