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Royal Blackheath Golf Club to sell famous portrait to save course

A rare painting will be on the market soon, as a golf club takes desperate measures to secure its land for the future.

According to a report from The Telegraph, Royal Blackheath Golf Club, England's oldest golf club and a fixture in the country for four centuries, is selling a portrait of Henry Callender, the famous captain general of the club.

The portrait was supposedly painted around 1790 and replicas reproduced two decades later now hang in golf clubhouses around the world, but the original has sat in Royal Blackheath's clubhouse since at least the 1870s.