A GREAT many people will share the disappointment of Arts Minister Heather Humpheys at failing to persuade the Beit Art Foundation to cancel its planned sale of valuable Russborough House paintings at Christie’s in London.

Works of art by Peter Paul Rubens, David Teniers the Younger, and Francesco Guardi are among a small group of carefully selected Old Masters from Russborough House that will be sold at Christie’s in London in July.