Brian Sewell's art collection is up for grabs – what does it reveal?

We know what he didn’t like, but a Christie’s auction of Sewell’s personal hoard of paintings sets his ferocious critical judgments against some muddled tastes

Brian Sewell, the art critic, was never shy about condemning the tastes of others. Many remember Sewell for his dismissals of contemporary art, but he was equally ready to chastise the National Gallery for what he saw as badly conceived exhibitions of the greats. So we knew what he did not like. But what did he love?

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