LONDON.- Donations to the appeal by the Art Fund and the National Trust to save an iconic Old Master painting for the nation are approaching £1.4 million. The appeal still has some way to go, however, to reach its £2.7 million target by Christmas and it is hoped that the public will support the appeal through The Big Give Christmas Challenge that begins today. In September, the Art Fund and the National Trust launched a fundraising appeal to save ‘The Procession to Calvary’ by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The painting is the star attraction at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, owned by the National Trust since 1954, where it has hung for over 200 years. The painting, which is still owned by Lord St Oswald, has been put up for sale, with the risk that Nostell’s greatest work will no longer be accessible to the public. Completed in 1602, and amon