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“Squirrel” Stays in Britain: Hans Holbein’s 1528 painting “Lady With a Squirrel” has been sold to the National Gallery in London for about $17 million. The Marquess of Cholmondely had consigned the painting to Christie’s London for sale on April 15, but the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Art Collections Fund pooled resources to save the painting from the auction block and keep it in Britain. Proceeds of the sale will help preserve historic Houghton Hall in Norfolk, built for Robert Walpole, England’s first prime minister.