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Unsurprisingly, a number of makes an attempt have been made either to fully rework the National Gallery , or to move it to more capacious premises in Kensington, the place the air was additionally cleaner. In 1867 Barry’s son Edward Middleton Barry proposed to switch the Wilkins building with an enormous classical building with 4 domes. The scheme was a failure and up to date critics denounced the exterior as “a robust plagiarism upon St Paul’s Cathedral”. In February 2014, the gallery bought Men of the Docks by the American artist George Bellows for $25.5 million (£15.6 million). It was…