Focus on La Schiavona and explore the History.
The portrait was presented to the National Gallery in London in 1942 by Sir Francis Cook, Bt, in memory of his father Herbert, via the Art Fund – it is still in the Gallery's collection, as NG5385.From October 2009 to January 2010, La Schiavona was loaned to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds to be shown as part of an exhibition called "Sculpture in Painting".
Herbert Sir Francis Cook, Bt National Gallery Art Fund