The Art Fund
The National Maritime Museum and the Art Fund
The Art Fund are the national fundraising charity for works of art, helping to enrich the range, quality and understanding of art in the UK. It has a long history of supporting acquisitions at the National Maritime Museum.
The Art Fund first helped the Museum in 1928 with the gift of a drawing of Admiral George Churchill by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and the following year it presented the Museum with Nelson’s iconic Chelengk.
More recently, the Art Fund has helped the Museum with the acquisition of a marine chronometer made by Henry Sully, a painting by Dominic Serres and The Parting Cheer by Henry Nelson O’Neil.
Altogether the Art Fund has helped the Museum to acquire 283 objects through gifts and grant awards. A selection of the items that have entered the collection with the Art Fund’s assistance are shown below.
Selected works purchased with support from the Art Fund
See the full list of works helped (Art Fund website).
