Avery-Quash, Susanna and Riding, Christine (2020) Two hundred years of women benefactors at the National Gallery: an exercise in mapping uncharted territory. Journal of Art Historiography (23). ISSN 2042-4752
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Abstract
This article sheds fresh light on women who have been important benefactors to the National Gallery from its foundation in 1824 to the present (2020), largely in terms of donating paintings but also through financial aid to support the acquisition of paintings and frames, building work, staff posts, publications, exhibitions, and various public events. Through a mixture of case-studies and basic data analysis, the following set of core questions is addressed: (1) Who were the Gallery’s women donors? (2) Which paintings did they give and in what other ways have they been generous to the Gallery? (3) What patterns within their donating can be discerned? (4) What were their motivations for their gift giving? (5) Why have their donations been easy to lose sight of? (6) What is the Gallery doing now, ahead of its 200th anniversary in 2024, to draw attention to the significant contributions of its women donors past and present? It is hoped that the information compiled here will act as a useful reference point for others in the field when probing similar types of provenance records and will encourage readers to share information to help us fill persisting gaps in our data.
| Type of Work: | Article |
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| School/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law |
| Department: | Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies |
| Additional Information: | This article is archived in ePapers for preservation purposes |
| Date: | December 2020 |
| Keywords: | women donors, gifts and bequests, acceptance in lieu, commemoration, Art Fund, National Gallery, Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, ‘old master’ paintings, works on paper |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
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| ID Code: | 3397 |
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