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UK, Russia to swap portrait masterpieces in major cultural exchange

Anton Chekhov by Iosif Braz, 1898 and William Shakespeare attributed to John Taylor, cc 1610 (National Portrait Gallery)

The National Portrait Gallery and the State Tretyakov Gallery are marking their 160th anniversaries by loaning treasures.

State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow will send portraits such as Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky and National Portrait Gallery will reciprocate with Shakespeare, Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Carlyle in an exchange of some of Russia and the UK’s greatest figures. Both London and Moscow galleries will mark their 160th anniversaries by loaning treasures for exhibitions next year.

A detail from a reproduction of Tchaikovsky’s Portrait 1893 by Kuznetsov from the collection of the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow. Photograph: RIA Novosti/Alamy

Moscow has opted for a broader sweep through British history and will borrow portraits of figures including Charles Dickens, Isaac Newton, Elizabeth I, Charles Darwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. The 2016 exchange celebrates the founding remits of both galleries to put together collections of portraits of each country.


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