Sale of Beit works is right and necessary

Conservation groups have no remit for their inappropriate attempts to block their auction at Christie’s, and nobody else is stepping up to pay for the preservation of Russborough House

The Beit Foundation has few options for the upkeep of Russborough House Picture: Maura Hickey
Yew Court, Scalby, on a November night: one of two John Atkinson Grimshaw works from Russborough House, which were sold last week for €56,250 each, at the lower end of their estimates

The group of paintings that are being sold by the Beit Foundation, to create an endowment fund designed to keep Russborough House open and in good working order, have nothing whatsoever to do with the generous bequest made by Alfred and Lady Beit ...