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| Founded | 1903 |
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Area served | United Kingdom |
Members | 122,000[1] |
Key people | Jenny Waldman (director) Lord Smith of Finsbury (chairman) |
Revenue | £8,120,000[2] |
| Website | http://www.artfund.org |
Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users. It relies on members' subscriptions and public donations for funds and does not receive funding from the government or the National Lottery.
Since its foundation in 1903 the Fund has been involved in the acquisition of over 860,000 works of art of every kind, including many of the most famous objects in British public collections, such as Velázquez's Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery, Picasso's Weeping Woman in the Tate collection, the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the medieval Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant in the British Museum.[3]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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- ^ Adams, Stephen (30 July 2008). "Unique medieval astrolabe saved by the British Museum". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 6 September 2018.