Dutch Delights
By Lin Qi | China Daily | Updated: 2017-06-20 06:59
Works from the Leiden Collection made their China debut on Friday. The 74 old master paintings are on show at the National Museum of China in Beijing through September. Lin Qi reports.
Thomas Kaplan says he has never "lived" with any of the 250 paintings from his collection. The 54-year-old entrepreneur and investor from the United States, along with his wife, Daphne, have since 2003 put together one of the largest collections of 17th-century Dutch paintings in private hands.
They call it the Leiden Collection, after the city where many featured master painters were based, including Rembrandt van Rijn.
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