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Significant support secures Sickert for Wales

CARDIFF.- National Museum Wales has acquired one of Walter Richard Sickert’s (1860-1942) paintings, entitled The Rialto Bridge and the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, c.1902-04, thanks to a significant funding grant from the Art Fund and a contribution from the Derek Williams Trust. The purchase was made possible through the support of the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art, who awarded £35,000, as well as the Derek Williams Trust and generosity on the part of the vendors. This oil on canvas will beautifully complement and enhance other Venetian works by artists in the Museum collection such as Antonio Canaletto, Monet, Whistler, Eugène Boudin, Frank Brangwyn and the recently acquired works, View of the Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore on the Grand Canal, Venice by Francesco Guardi and Venice, Evening by Howard Hodgkin. Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales possesses two