Items include a Michelangelo painting and the pearl earring worn by Charles I when he was executed
A painting of Lady Margaret Stuart, Countess of Nottingham, is one of many in the Portland CollectionArtworks and unusual objects collected over 400 years by an aristocratic family are to go on display.
The pieces will make up an exhibition which is to open at Welbeck Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, next year. Highlights of the exhibition, set up by the Harley Foundation, include a Michelangelo painting - Madonna of Silence - and the pearl earring worn by King Charles I at his execution after the English Civil War.Parts of the collection are being recalled from loans to museums around the country to make up the exhibition but organisers said many items had never been on display before.
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