Two diamond-encrusted Cartier brooches, once owned by the arts patron Virginia Courtauld, have been acquired by English ...
The brooches were bought at auction from Dreweatts with a grant from the Art Fund, and a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation. They sold for £19,000 according to the auctioneers.
He and Samuel Courtauld were near contemporaries, remarkably similar and indeed met in 1932; both loved art and both took the ...