National Heritage Memorial Fund
2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. Over the last three decades the Fund has safeguarded over 1,200 iconic heritage treasures for the nation including The Flying Scotsman, Henry the VIII's flagship, Mary Rose, Turner's The Blue Rigi and most recently the Staffordshire Hoard. Set up in 1980, the Fund provides grants to help acquire the UK's most precious heritage at risk of loss as a living memorial to those who have given their lives in service to the country. Over the last thirty years it has awarded more than £298 million to help build and protect an outstanding national collection ranging from historic houses, monuments and works of art to industrial and maritime heritage and iconic landscapes.
National Heritage Memorial Fund
The National Heritage Memorial Fund has been vital in enabling the Gallery to acquire many portraits of outstanding significance since 1984:
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1532-1533
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Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
studio of Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1537
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Mary Neville, Lady Dacre; Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre
by Hans Eworth
1559
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Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist
1565
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John Donne
by Unknown English artist
circa 1595
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John Belasyse (Bellasis), 1st Baron Belasyse of Worlaby
by Gilbert Jackson
1636
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Lord George Stuart, 9th Seigneur of Aubigny
by Sir Anthony van Dyck
circa 1638
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John Evelyn
by Robert Walker
1648-circa 1656
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Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland with her son, probably Charles FitzRoy, as the Virgin and Child
by Sir Peter Lely
circa 1664
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Alexander Pope
by John Michael Rysbrack
1730
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William Jones
by William Hogarth
1740
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The Shudi Family Group
by Marcus Tuscher
circa 1742
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
by Louis François Roubiliac
1745
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Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
by Pompeo Batoni
1752-1756
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Thomas Hollis
by Joseph Wilton
circa 1762
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Karl Friedrich Abel
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1765
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Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1771-1773
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'John Wilkes and his daughter Polly' (Mary ('Polly') Wilkes; John Wilkes)
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
exhibited 1782
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Sir Richard Arkwright
by Joseph Wright
circa 1783-1785
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Horatio Nelson
by Sir William Beechey
1800
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Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1812
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John Ruskin
by James Northcote
1822
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Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers
by Jerry Barrett
1856
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The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
by Jerry Barrett
1857
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Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
Summer 1858
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Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
Summer 1858
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Ina Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
Summer 1858
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Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
Summer 1858
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Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell; Edith Mary Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
1858-1860
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Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
Summer 1858
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Edith Mary Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
Summer 1858
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Alice Liddell; Ina Liddell; Harry Liddell; Edith Mary Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
Spring 1860
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Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
July 1860
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'Open your mouth, and shut your eyes' (Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell)
by Lewis Carroll
July 1860
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Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
25 June 1870
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Ina Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
25 June 1870
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Alice Liddell
by Unknown photographer
circa 1880
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