The Dutch government is ready to pay the art-collecting Rothschild family $198 million—including $170 million from state coffers—for a work by Rembrandt van Rijn, so that the painting can remain “public property in the Netherlands forever.” The Dutch Golden Age painter’s 1636 self-portrait, titled The Standard Bearer (De Vaandeldrager), has been in the hands of private collectors for centuries, from England’s …
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