Dame Helen Gardner Fund

The literary critic and scholar, Dame Helen Gardner (1909-86), who was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery (1967-78), bequeathed the Gallery her royalties on her book, The New Oxford Book of English Verse. The Fund’s purpose is to facilitate the purchase of English literary portraits, and portraits of late 16th-century and early 17th-century sitters. The Fund has been vital in securing the acquisition of a number of important works.