There’s little doubt as to the identity of the storybook villain in the battle to keep Raphael’s 9-inch square painting in the UK. The Duke of Northumberland, one of the richest landowners in Britain, has positively cleaned up on the deal, and, by playing the Getty Museum against the UK’s Heritage Lottery, he assured himself of a fat payday regardless of who won the ownership battle. For his part, the Duke has “denied that the cash will be used to pay for a £9 million Italianate garden his wife is designing at Alnwick as a part of what he calls a ‘public regeneration project’. Nor he insists, did he renege on a family agreement to give the gallery the first option to buy the Raphael.”