Looking to open a small museum?

The upcoming Christies auction is good jumping off point. Some of the paintings available include works by people like:

• Canaletto
• Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco
• Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.
• Sir Anthony van Dyck

Not a bad haul. Not thematic, of course, but still, that’d go pretty far in getting a small museum up and running.