The Art Fund
As the UK's largest art charity the Art Fund has helped hundreds of museums and galleries acquire nearly half a million works of art. Since its foundation in 1903, the Art Fund has helped the National Portrait Gallery acquire over 220 works of art including Julian Opie's paintings of Blur, Gwen John's self portrait, John Singer Sargent's portrait of Arthur James Balfour, Hans Eworth's portrait of Mary I and Nicholas Hilliard's miniature portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh. The Art Fund is a charity independent of government funding and raises its income through membership subscriptions, donations and legacies.
The Art Fund
The Art Fund: listing of portraits acquired for the National Portrait Gallery
A selection of works acquired with Art Fund help:
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Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1532-1533
NPG 6310
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
studio of Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1537
NPG 6311
Queen Mary I
by Hans Eworth
1554
NPG 4861
Mary Nevill, Lady Dacre; Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre
by Hans Eworth
1559
NPG 6855
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist
1565
NPG 6676
Sir Walter Ralegh
by Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1585
NPG 4106
John Donne
by Unknown English artist
circa 1595
NPG 6790
John Fletcher
by Unknown artist
circa 1620
NPG 6829
Lord George Stuart
by Sir Anthony Van Dyck
circa 1638
NPG 5964
John Evelyn
by Robert Walker
1648
NPG 6179
Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland with her son, Charles Fitzroy, as Madonna and Child
by Sir Peter Lely
circa 1664
NPG 6725
Laurence Sterne
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1760
NPG 5019
Mary Moser
by George Romney
circa 1770-71
NPG 6641
Thomas Kerrich
by Thomas Kerrich
1774
NPG 6531
Omai (Mai), Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Charles Solander
by William Parry
circa 1775-76
NPG 6652
Probably John Cartwright
by Henry Fuseli
circa 1779
NPG 4538
Mary Wilkes; John Wilkes
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
exhibited 1782
NPG 6133
Sir Richard Arkwright
by Joseph Wright
circa 1783-1785
NPG 6848
John Philip Kemble
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1812
NPG 6869
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1825
NPG 3136
George Richmond
by George Richmond
1830
NPG 6586
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
circa 1848
NPG P660
Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
summer 1858
NPG P991(4)
Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe)
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1879
NPG 6612
John Collier
by Marion Collier (née Huxley)
circa 1882-1883
NPG 6811
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by John Singer Sargent
1908
NPG 6620
Roger Fry
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
1912
NPG 6684
Cecil Collins
by Cecil James Henry Collins
1932
NPG 6572
David Bomberg ('Self-Portrait with Pipe')
by David Garshen Bomberg
circa 1932
NPG 6653
Patrick Heron
by Patrick Heron
1951
NPG 6540
R.B. Kitaj ('Self-Portrait: Hockney Pillow')
by R.B. Kitaj
1993-1994
NPG 6791
Frank Auerbach
by Frank Auerbach
1994-2001
NPG 6611
Damon Albarn
by Julian Opie
2000
NPG 6593(1)
Sir David Hare
by Paula Rego
2005
NPG 6746
Marc Quinn ('Self')
by Marc Quinn
2006
NPG 6863
Anna Wintour
by Alex Katz
2009
NPG 6908
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