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The National Art Collections Fund was founded in 1903 in order to help museums and galleries acquire works of art. The founders, who included MacColl, Christiana Herringham , Roger Fry and Robin Benson , [ 5 ] were prompted by what they saw as the inadequacy of government funding of museums.
Christiana Jane Herringham, Lady Herringham (née Powell; 1852–1929) was a British artist, copyist, and art patron. She is noted for her part in establishing the National Art Collections Fund in 1903 to help preserve Britain's artistic heritage. In 1910 Walter Sickert wrote of her as "the most useful and authoritative critic living".
Francis Vane Phipson Rutter (17 February 1876 – 18 April 1937) [1] was a British art critic, curator and activist. In 1903, he became art critic for The Sunday Times, a position which he held for the rest of his life. [2] [3] He was an early champion in England of modern art, founding the French Impressionist Fund in 1905 to buy work for the ...
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This particular Ife Head was taken from Nigeria by the editor of the Daily Times of Nigeria, H. Maclear Bate, who probably sold it to the National Art Collections Fund, [6] [7] which then passed it onto the British Museum in 1939. The discovery of the sculptures was the spur for the government to control the export of antiquities from Nigeria.
Geoffrey de Bellaigue was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Art Collections Fund from 1977, Honorary President of the French Porcelain Society from 1985, and a trustee of the Wallace Collection from 1998. [1] He was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1968, and was advanced to Commander (CVO) in 1976.
He accumulated a large collection of fine and decorative art, which on his death became the largest bequest ever left to the National Art Collections Fund. [1] In 1931 he acquired Montacute House in Somerset and the Bath Assembly Rooms for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings .
Sir Peter George Arthur Wakefield KBE CMG (13 May 1922 – 1 December 2010) was a British diplomat and art fund director. He served as a diplomat in Amman, Nicosia, Cairo, Vienna, Tokyo and Benghazi and as the United Kingdom's Ambassador in Lebanon and Belgium. Following his retirement from the diplomatic service, Wakefield was appointed ...