A village landscape with crowds gathering around quack doctors

The remarkable collection of works of art assembled by Sir Josiah Guest and his son, the 1st Baron Wimborne, included works of the quality of Veronese's Venus and Mars united by Love, Maineri's Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels (both New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Lorenzo Costa's The Israelites gathering Manna (London, National Gallery) and The Apostle Paul by Rembrandt or his studio (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art). Perhaps the most remarkable acquisition, which lapsed into obscurity until its rediscovery and sale in these Rooms in July 1994, was the Canford relief, a gypsum bas-relief wall-slab from the north-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Kalhu (Nimrud), dating from 883-859BC.