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National Portrait Gallery raises money to keep portrait of poet John Donne in Britain

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060527
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AP Worldstream
05-27-2006
Dateline: LONDON
Britain's National Portrait Gallery said Saturday it had raised enough money to ensure a 16th-century portrait of poet John Donne remains in the country.

The gallery said a flood of private donations had helped it raise the 1.4 million pound (US$2.6 million, euro2 million) purchase price. The gallery announced in January that it had six months to come up with the funds to buy the painting and stop it going to a private collector.

The government's National Heritage Memorial Fund provided 750,000 pounds (US$1.4 million, euro1.1 million), and members of ...

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