St Piran's Day been other calls and petitions for a Cornish public holiday on 5 March. It has been suggested that a move from the May Day Bank Holiday to a St Piran's Day Bank Holiday in Cornwall would be worth £20–35 million to the Cornish economy. In December 2011 Cornwall Council voted in favour of asking the government to make St Piran's Day a bank holiday in Cornwall, should they decide to move the May Day holiday. A petition for a county wide day off at the Cornwall council website, closed with only 363 signatures, and fell far short of the 50,000
Alexander Day (artist) Adonis", Raphael's "St. Catharine" and the "Madonna, Infant Christ, and St. John" (the "Aldobrandini Madonna"), Leonardo da Vinci's "Christ disputing with the Doctors", Domenichino's "S. Jerome and the Angel", Annibale Carracci's "Christ appearing to Simon Peter after his Resurrection", and Gaspard Poussin's "Landscape with Abraham and Isaac", which are now in the National Gallery. His portrait miniatures of ladies are particularly graceful. Day purchased from the Borghese collection Annibale Carracci's "Temptation of St Anthony", and, in 1792 Andrea Mantegna's "Adoration of the Shepherds", which William Buchanan sold to Richard Payne Knight at Downton Castle. Day died in Chelsea, London on