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British Museum
Great Russell St, London, England

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The antiquarian and art collector Richard Payne Knight bequeathed over a thousand drawings to the British Museum. The superb quality of his collection transformed the Museum's graphic holdings and established it as a place where visitors could admire old master drawings alongside works of contemporary British art.

The exhibition explores the breadth of Payne Knight's intellectual interests through some of the most celebrated works from the bequest. Drawings by Renaissance and Baroque painters like Raphael, Michelangelo and Claude Lorrain will be shown alongside work by Payne Knight's contemporaries, including Thomas Gainsborough and John Robert Cozens. 

The exhibition marks the first time that a representative selection of this important bequest has been displayed since its arrival at the British Museum in 1824.