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My favourite painting: The Duke of Buccleuch

The Duke of Buccleuch’s art collection includes works by Thomas Gainsborough and other household names, but he chooses a piece from a more obscure painter.

The Duke of Buccleuch chooses Chalk Cliffs on Rügen by Caspar David Friedrich

‘I love this engagingly beautiful antidote to dark, damp winter nights, with its sunlit glare from the chalk cliffs, which frame a view as if to infinity over the Baltic. I love its mystery.

‘Two spectators, backs turned, risk…

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