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LIFE GOES ON: Private art gallery owners are seldom as affluent as their contracted artists suspect. Not so Hugh Grosvenor, 29, whose net worth tops $18 billion and whose art collection includes masterpieces by Gainsborough, Rembrandt, van Dyck and the like. Not that movie-star-handsome Grosvenor, a.k.a. the seventh Duke of Westminster, actually manages a gallery temporarily named Benjamin Lumb Art House.
![With an $18 billion net worth, Duke of Westminster Hugh Grosvenor can likely afford having a rent-free art gallery in his Grosvenor Ambleside project. Photo for the Mac Parry Town Talk column of March 21, 2020. Malcolm Parry/Special to the Sun [PNG Merlin Archive]](https://postmediavancouversun2.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/s0311-05-duke-of-westminster_255139695-s.jpg?w=640?quality=5&strip=all&w=100)
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However, it is part of the Grosvenor Ambleside condo-retail complex, and the duke does own that, many other Canadian properties and most of London’s Mayfair and Belgravia districts. Local Grosvenor Americas brass approved sculptor Lumb’s request to display his and others’ creations in the yet-unleased West Vancouver storefront. The most recent show, titled Wild Life, features works by Susanna Blunt, Marcus Bowcott, Tiko Kerr and Lam Wong along with Lumb’s Safe Explosion — a blown-apart former hotel strongbox disgorging currency bills.
