Dr Joseph Brown, one of Australia’s biggest art collectors has decided to donate his collection to the National Gallery of Victoria. “The fate of the highly-prized collection — renowned in art circles for its quality and quantity — has been a 20-year saga. A succession of state governments have failed to take up Dr Brown’s offer of the works, which was once valued by art experts at more than $60 million. The historic value of the works, by many famous artists including Streeton, von Guerard, Drysdale and Whiteley, is immense. The collection has been in storage since 2002, at a cost of about $650-a-week insurance and $300-a-week storage.”