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Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 200716, tabled on 13 June 2014

Question

Michael Ellis
Conservative
Northampton North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2014, Official Report, column 142W, on embassies: Iran, what the estimated monetary value is of each of the works of art cited in that answer which is owned by the Government Art Collection.

Answer

Mr Edward Vaizey
Conservative
Wantage
Commons

Answered on

18 June 2014

The most recent estimated values for the works (December 2011) were as follows:

0/664 George Hayter - Queen Victoria (1819-1901) Reigned 1837-1901- oil painting - £20,000

5230 Ahmad - Fath 'Ali Shah (1797-1834) 2nd Qajar Shah of Iran – oil painting - £1,200,000

0/663 Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (after) - King Edward VII (1841-1910) Reigned 1901-10 – oil painting - £2,000

17351 Adrian Berg - Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, June – oil painting - £10,000

13319 Cedric Morris - Tulips and Iris – oil painting - £20,000

0/661 Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (after) - King George V (1865-1936) Reigned 1910-36 – oil painting - £2,000

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