The privately-owned Mougins Museum of Classical Art closed in August for a revamp to rebrand as what has been described as Europe’s "first major museum dedicated to work by women artists"

Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m

Describing the donation as the most significant to the department in nearly 80 years, museum will rename galleries after the philanthropist

Camillo Palladini was a master swordsman whose work has been lost for centuries until this publication