FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN Mr Ruffer, who is reportedly worth £100m, bought 13 paintings of Jacob and his sons from the Church of England and immediately gave them back to the Church as a gift.

His work is characterized by a combination of striking light-dark contrasts and a rudimentary, slightly makeshift painting style developed during an apprenticeship under an obscure artist in the ...

by the Spanish master Francisco de Zurbarán. Twelve are from the dining room of Auckland Castle, in the small northeastern English town of Bishop Auckland, and one, reuniting the suite ...

Strapped to the rough-hewn trunk of a gibbet tree, wrapped in white draperies and stretched across a dark, flattened canvas, "St. Serapion" as pictured by the Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán ...

In this sense no artist is more typically Spanish than Francisco de Zurbaran ... and a few disputed paintings found in out-of-the-way monasteries. That year, the first Zurbaran exhibit in modern ...

The Zurbaran ... art museums — and few among general art museums with strength in Spanish art. After organizing exhibitions devoted to Francisco Goya, Diego Velázquez, Jusepe de Ribera ...

The paintings depict Jacob and his twelve sons and were painted by Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbaran in the 1640s. The painting of Naphalti is one of six being sent to America for examination ...

FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN Mr Ruffer, who is reportedly worth £100m, bought 13 paintings of Jacob and his sons from the Church of England and immediately gave them back to the Church as a gift.

The paintings depict Jacob and his twelve sons and were painted by Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbaran in the 1640s. The painting of Naphalti is one of six being sent to America for examination ...