The Scottish government gave £2.5 million of the £11.6 million needed to buy the Scottish National Gallery’s Titian acquired this week. “I am most impressed with the Scottish Executive and Mike Watson in particular for giving us £2.5 million at a difficult time. It’s a very enlightened thing for a government to do. A direct treasury grant in Scotland for something as rarefied and distinguished as this is a splendid thing.” But the director of the National gallery warns that other art treasures are in dancer of being sold and taken out of the country.