# Brueghel Old Master saved for nation as £2.7 million target reached

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/01/09/brueghel-old-master-saved-nation-27m-target-reached/
- Published: 2011-01-09T12:10:10+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A three-month fundraising campaign by The Art Fund, the National Trust and National
Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) has successfully secured Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s‘
The Procession to Calvary’ for the nation.**

The £2.72 million total was reached when [NHMF](http://www.nhmf.org.uk) confirmed
it would make a grant of £1,034,000. The Art Fund had launched the appeal with a
£500,000 grant, and members of the public, many of whom were Art Fund and National
Trust members, donated over £680,000, and nearly £510,000 came from trusts and foundations.

As a result, ‘The Procession to Calvary’ can now be kept on public display at [Nostell Priory](http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nostell)
in West Yorkshire, a National Trust property. It has hung there for over 200 years,
but was put up for sale by its owner, Lord St Oswald.

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Completed in 1602, ‘The Procession to Calvary’ shows Christ carrying the cross on
the way to his crucifixion. He is surrounded by over two hundred figures in a vibrant
narrative, set in a contemporary Flemish landscape.
[www.artfund.org](http://www.artfund.org)
_Image: Brueghel’s The Procession to Calvary © National Trust, Robert Thrift_

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