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- 2000 - Brenda Knapp bequeathes a portfolio of shares and property
worth over £5 million to The Art Fund
- 2001 - The Art Fund's VAT campaign is successful, enabling all
national museums and galleries to introduce free admission
- 2003 - The Art Fund celebrates its centenary with a nationwide
programme of events including an exhibition Saved! 100 years of the
National Art Collections Fund at the Hayward Gallery, London
- 2003 - Titian's Venus Anadyomene acquired by the National Gallery of
Scotland with an Art Fund grant of £500,000
- 2003 - The Art Fund helps secure the future of the Royal
Photographic Society's collection of over 270,000 photographs, acquired
for the NMPFT, Bradford
- 2004 - The Art Fund gives £400,000 towards Raphael's Madonna of the
Pinks, secured by the National Gallery after a hard-fought campaign and
a public appeal
- 2004 - The Art Fund launches a public appeal on BBC television's
Culture Show to save the Macclesfield Psalter from export to the Getty
Museum in Los Angeles
- 2005 - Following a successful fundraising appeal, and a pledge of
£500,000 from The Art Fund, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
successfully acquires the Macclesfield Psalter with additional help from
the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the Fitzwilliam, and
£180,000 in donations
- 2005 - Sir Joshua Reynolds's double portrait Colonel Acland and Lord
Sydney: The Archers is saved from export by Tate with the help of a
grant of £400,000 from The Art Fund
- 2006 - The Art Fund unveils its first major commission - a permanent
installation at Yorkshire Sculpture Park by renowned American artist
James Turrell, entitled The Deer
Shelter
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