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Camphuysen painting comes home to roost

Jan 13, 2010
By Ella Karapetyan

FEATHERED PORTRAIT: Art Museum director Sirje Helme and Foreign Minister Urmas Paet admire latest gift.
TALLINN - The Art Museum of Estonia, which has been collecting, preserving and developing Estonian visual culture for decades, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Foreign Minister Urmas Paet has presented the museum with an oil painting by Dutch artist Govert Dircksz Camphuysen (1624-1672), entitled “Chicken in its nest,” in honor of the museum’s anniversary. Previously the painting, which was restored by the museum, belonged to the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. Paet ...

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