Jan's painting banned from leaving the UK
Jan Brueghel the Elder's The Garden of Eden With the Fall of Man (1613) was blocked from being transported to a foreign buyer after Sotheby's sale. Experts deemed the work as too culturally and artistically significant to leave the UK, and has demanded that Sotheby's sell to a domestic buyer. Other artworks such as van Dyck's 1641 Self Portraits have also been successfully banned from leaving the UK.