UK - Victorian and 20th-century art Collection: Curtain rises on treasured collection

Over almost a century of buying only what he loved - he never bought for investment - Sir David amassed, with his second wife, one of the most remarkable private collections in Britain. After his death in 1986, his widow, Valerie Finnis, continued to care for the works until she died in 2006. The Scott collection, which goes on show in Edinburgh next week before a sale in London on November 19, is regarded as an unprecedented body of Victorian and 20th-century art, featuring many celebrated paintings that have been unavailable for generations.

Curtain rises on treasured collection that opens window on ... (Times Online)