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Neapolitan paintings, religious portraits and a Chinese bronze are among new items on display at Compton Verney country house. The mansion, which was restored as an art gallery, will be showing its most recent acquisitions when it opens for the 2007 season on March 9. The latest addition to its collection of Chinese bronzes is a statue of a stallion dating from the Han dynasty of 206BC to AD220. The bronze which would originally have been used on an aristocratic tombstone, symbolically pulling a carriage or chariot into the afterlife. The gallery has also enlarged its 'Naples' collection of paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Among new works are Vesuvius Erupting at Night by Lacroix de Marseille and Sir William and the First Lady Hamilton in their Apartment in Naples by David Allan. The collection of early German art has also been expanded with the 16th and 13th century pieces as we as an unusual 15th century statue made in Nottingham. The gallery has also bought a Sir William Beechley portrait of diplomat Mirza Abu'l Hassan Khan, an emissary sent by the Shah of Persia to the court of King George III in 1809. Admission to the gallery costs [pounds sterling]7. Booking opens on March 1. Call 645500. SEND US YOUR STORIES If you have a story for our newsdesk, please click on the following link: Click here to email your report
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