A Dutch exhibition featuring the first seven works by Flemish master painter Jan van Eyck can go ahead later this year, thanks to an appeal to the public, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday.

The show, scheduled to take place in the Boijmans van Beuning museum in Rotterdam this autumn, was in doubt because of cuts in government funding, the paper says. Staging the exhibition was budgeted at €1.3m.
But an appeal to the public has generated €75,000 and the resultant publicity has brought in major corporate sponsoring. Asset manager Robeco signed up to become chief sponsor and the Turing Foundation put in a further donation of €100,000.
In total, the museum has now raised €500,000 to fund the show.
‘We so believe in this show that we are not going to stop now,’ museum director Sjarel Ex told the paper.
Ex expects entry tickets and catalogues to generate €500,000, if the show attracts the forecast 135,000 visitors.