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43-535: George Salting (15 August 1835 – 12 December 1909) was an Colony of New South Wales-born British art collector . He had inherited considerable wealth from his father; Salting collected paintings, Chinese porcelains, furniture, and many other categories of art and decorative items. He left his paintings to the National Gallery, London , prints and drawings to the British Museum , and the remainder to

86-574: A Bachelor of Arts degree in 1857. In 1858 the Salting family again travelled to England; Louisa Salting died there on 24 July 1858. Severin Salting settled in Kent , where he died in 1865. Severin Salting made a large fortune in sheep-farming and sugar-growing which he bequeathed to his son; George Salting inherited a fortune estimated at £30,000 a year. Largely influenced by the connoisseur Louis Huth , Salting began collecting Chinese porcelain , developing

129-441: A fine discriminating taste for it. His collection gradually extended and included English furniture, bronzes, majolica, glass, hard stones, manuscripts, miniatures, pictures, carpets, and other items which might be found in a good museum. Salting was a careful buyer, as a rule dealing only with two or three dealers whom he felt he could trust, though he sometimes bought at auction. He often obtained expert advice and his own knowledge

172-602: A number of corporate sponsors. In addition individual shows are often sponsored. Tate now spends around £1 million of its general funds each year on purchasing acquisitions and their related costs. The Outset Contemporary Art Fund was established in 2003, by Tate patrons Yana Peel and Candida Gertler. In collaboration with the Frieze Art Fair , the fund buys works from the fair for the Tate's collections. Other funds for acquisitions are raised by Tate funding groups such as

215-478: A range of logos that move in and out of focus, "suggesting the dynamic nature of Tate – always changing but always recognizable" Variations include a standard logo, a blurred version, a faded version and a halftone version consisting of dots rather than smooth fading. An update on the brand, designed by North, was released in 2016. The head of the Tate (formally the National Gallery of British Art and

258-453: A significant effect on the functioning of the original London Tate Gallery, whose size was increasingly proving a constraint as the collection grew. It was a logical step to separate the "British" and "Modern" aspects of the collection, and they are now housed in separate buildings in London. The original gallery is now called Tate Britain and is the national gallery for British art from 1500 to

301-630: Is buried in Brompton Cemetery . His will was sworn at over £1,300,000. Of this he bequeathed £10,000 to London hospitals, £2000 to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital at Sydney, and £30,000 to relatives and others. The residue of his estate went to the heirs of his brother, who predeceased him. Salting left his entire collection of paintings, Oriental china, bronzes, and miniatures, valued at from $ 5,000,000 to $ 20,000,000, to British museums. He bequeathed his paintings to

344-586: Is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport . The name "Tate" is used also as the operating name for the corporate body, which was established by the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 as "The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery". The gallery was founded in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. When its role was changed to include

387-644: The Charities Act 1993 , the Tate is an exempt charity accountable directly to Government rather than the Charity Commission for financial returns etc. However, the Trustees are still expected to follow the broad responsibilities of charity trustees, and may be subject to Charity Commission oversight on these elements of their activities. Maria Balshaw has been Director of Tate since 2017, succeeding Sir Nicholas Serota (1988 to 2017). Under

430-728: The Liechtenstein Museum after nearly 60 years with most in storage. The important collection of the Thyssen family , mostly kept in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , which settled in Madrid in 1992, was bought by the Spanish state. Only an exhibited part, the collection of Carmen Cervera , widow of the late Baron Thyssen, remains private but exhibited separately in the museum. Many collections were left to

473-653: The Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon . Other collections remain complete but are merged into larger collections in museums. Some important 19th/20th examples are: [REDACTED] Media related to Private collections at Wikimedia Commons Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom 's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It

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516-516: The National Gallery , London, and his prints and drawings to the British Museum as the respective trustees might select. The remainder of his art collection went to the Victoria and Albert Museum , with a proviso that it was to be kept together and not distributed over the various departments. It is a notable collection to have been put together by one person, the standard being extraordinarily high. The Chinese pottery and porcelain belonged mostly to

559-584: The Orleans Collection in Paris, mostly sold in London. When this happens, it can be a large loss to those interested in art as the initial vision of the collector is lost. The Princely Family of Liechtenstein have works by such artists as Hals , Raphael , Rembrandt and Van Dyck , a collection containing some 1,600 works of art, but were unable to show them since 1945 when they were smuggled out of Nazi Germany . The works were finally displayed in

602-701: The Turner Prize , the first time this has been held outside London. This was an overture to Liverpool's being the European Capital of Culture 2008. In 1993, another offshoot opened, Tate St Ives . It exhibits work by modern British artists, particularly those of the St Ives School . Additionally the Tate also manages the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden , which opened in 1980. Neither of these two new Tates had

645-682: The Victoria & Albert Museum , requesting that the collection be displayed intact rather than divided among the museum's departments. Salting was born in Sydney , the son of Severin Kanute (Knud) Salting (1806–1865), a Dane who had extensive business interests in New South Wales . In 1858 he made a gift of £500 to the University of Sydney to found scholarships to be awarded to students from Sydney Grammar School . George Salting's mother

688-436: The demand that artists supply. Many types of objects, such as medals , engravings , small plaquettes , modern engraved gems and bronze statuettes were essentially made for the collector's market. By the 18th century all homes of the well-to-do were expected to contain a selection of objects, from paintings to porcelain , that could form part of an art collection, and the collections of those who would normally qualify for

731-635: The initiative started in 2000 including Tate in Space (2002) which was nominated in the Interactive Art category for the 2003 BAFTA Interactive awards. Tate receives annual funding from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport . It is administered by a board of trustees, who are responsible for the running of the gallery and appoint the Director (for a period of seven years). Under

774-553: The 1920s. Collecting of African art was rare until after World War II. In recognition of its importance in influencing the production of new art and the preservation of old art, art collecting has been an area of considerable academic research in recent decades, having been somewhat neglected previously. Very famous collections that are now dispersed include the Borghese Collection and Farnese collection in Rome, and

817-517: The Director, Kerstin Mogull has been Managing Director of Tate since January 2014, succeeding Alex Beard . Various bodies have been set up to support the Tate including Tate Members for the general public, where a yearly fee gives rights such as free entry to charging exhibitions and members' rooms. There is also Tate Patrons for a higher subscription fee and the Tate Foundation. There are

860-769: The Members, the Patrons and the American Patrons of Tate and its sub-committees, the North American Acquisitions Committee and Latin American Acquisitions Committee. The American Patrons were renamed in 2013 to reflect their expanding geographical base of support; since 1999, this support group alone has raised more than $ 100 million. In 2010, a photography acquisitions committee was launched. In 2012,

903-491: The National Gallery of Art (the same title as the Tate Gallery had). Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a major collector of Victorian art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the State pay for the site and revenue costs. Henry Tate also donated his own collection to the gallery. It was initially a collection solely of modern British art, concentrating on

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946-481: The Tate Gallery was finally separated from the National Gallery. During the 1950s and 1960s, the visual arts department of the Arts Council of Great Britain funded and organised temporary exhibitions at the Tate Gallery including, in 1966, a retrospective of Marcel Duchamp . Later, the Tate began organising its own temporary exhibition programme. In 1979 with funding from a Japanese bank a large modern extension

989-487: The Tate established a South Asian acquisitions committee to collect contemporary and modern art from India and surrounding countries, as well as a committee for works from Russia, Eastern Europe and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). The Tate logo was designed by international brand consultancy Wolff Olins in 2000 as part of a larger rebranding effort focused around the idea "look again, think again." The museum uses

1032-587: The Victoria and Albert Museum, Salting Painter . He gave three paintings to the National Gallery during his life, and bequeathed an additional 192 in his will. Of those 31 have since been transferred to the Tate Gallery . His collection of paintings included: Some of the artifacts bequeathed by Salting, now in the Vicotria and Albert Museum, London Art collector Art collecting was common among

1075-465: The area. All four museums share the Tate Collection. One of the Tate's most publicised art events is the awarding of the annual Turner Prize to a British visual artist, which takes place at Tate Britain every other year (taking place at venues outside of London in alternate years). The original Tate was called the National Gallery of British Art, situated on Millbank , Pimlico , London at

1118-524: The art dealer and patron Joseph Duveen paid for two major expansions of the gallery building. His father had earlier paid for an extension to house the major part of the Turner Bequest, which in 1987 was transferred to a wing paid for by Sir Charles Clore . Henry Courtauld also endowed Tate with a purchase fund. By the mid 20th century, it was fulfilling a dual function of showing the history of British art as well as international modern art. In 1954,

1161-595: The current-day Tate, consisting of a network of four museums: Tate Britain , which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day; Tate Modern , also in London, which houses the Tate's collection of British and international modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present day; Tate Liverpool (founded in 1988), which has the same purpose as Tate Modern but on a smaller scale; and Tate St Ives in Cornwall (founded in 1993), which displays modern and contemporary art by artists who have connections with

1204-447: The late 15th century onwards, until the 18th century collectors tended to collect fairly new works from Europe. The extension of serious collecting to art from all periods and places was an essentially 19th-century development, or at least dating to the Age of Enlightenment . Trecento paintings were little appreciated until about the 1830s, and Chinese ritual bronzes and jades until perhaps

1247-519: The later dynasties, but much of the work of the great Tang period was practically unobtainable when Salting was collecting. It was suggested at the time of his death that as his wealth had been drawn from Australia, some of his collection should be donated to the Australian galleries. Nothing came of this; probably the legal difficulties were impassable. John D. Beazley named after an attic red-figure vase formerly owned by George Salting today in

1290-462: The national collection of modern art as well as the national collection of British art , in 1932, it was renamed the Tate Gallery after sugar magnate Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle , who had laid the foundations for the collection. The Tate Gallery was housed in the current building occupied by Tate Britain, which is situated in Millbank , London. In 2000, the Tate Gallery transformed itself into

1333-611: The present day, as well as some modern British art. Tate Modern , in Bankside Power Station on the south side of the Thames , opened in 2000 and now exhibits the national collection of modern art from 1900 to the present day, including some modern British art. In the late 2000s, the Tate announced a new development project to the south of the existing building. According to the museum this new development would "transform Tate Modern. An iconic new building will be added at

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1376-478: The private property of the British Royal Family . The cabinet of curiosities was an important mixed form of collection, including art and what we would now call natural history or scientific collections. These were formed by royalty but smaller ones also by merchants and scholars. The tastes and habits of collectors have played a very important part in determining what art was produced, providing

1419-665: The public in some form, and are now museums, or the nucleus of a museum's collection. Most museums are formed around one or more formerly private collection acquired as a whole. Major examples where few or no additions have been made include the Wallace Collection and Sir John Soane's Museum in London, the Frick Collection and Morgan Library in New York, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and

1462-530: The same domain. Other resources include illustrated information on all works in Tate's Collection of British and Modern, Contemporary and international art, all of Tate's research publications, and articles from the magazine Tate Etc. BT was the primary sponsor of Tate Online from 2001 to 2009. Tate Online has been used as a platform for Internet art exhibits, termed Net Art , which are organised as part of Tate's Intermedia Art initiative covering new media art . 13 net art exhibitions have been shown since

1505-482: The site of the former Millbank Prison . The idea of a National Gallery of British Art was first proposed in the 1820s by Sir John Leicester, Baron de Tabley . It took a step nearer when Robert Vernon gave his collection to the National Gallery in 1847. A decade later John Sheepshanks gave his collection to the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria & Albert Museum ), known for years as

1548-453: The south of the existing gallery. It will create more spaces for displaying the collection, performance and installation art and learning, all allowing visitors to engage more deeply with art, as well as creating more social spaces for visitors to unwind and relax in the gallery." Arts philanthropist John Studzinski donated more than £6   million to the project. The extension to Tate Modern opened in 2016 as The Switch House and, in 2017,

1591-476: The term had to be considerably larger, and some were enormous. Increasingly collectors tended to specialize in one or two types of work, although some, like George Salting (1835–1909), still had a very wide scope for their collections. Apart from antiquities , which were regarded as perhaps the highest form of collecting from the Renaissance until relatively recently, and also books, paintings and prints from

1634-728: The wealthy in the Ancient World in both Europe and East Asia , and in the Middle Ages , but developed in its modern form during the Renaissance and continues to the present day. The royal collections of most countries were originally the grandest of private collections but are now mostly in public ownership. However the British Royal Collection remains under the care of the Crown, though distinguished from

1677-517: The works of modern—that is Victorian era—painters. It was controlled by the National Gallery until 1954. Following the death of Sir Hugh Lane in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, an oversight in his will meant that the collection of European modern art he had intended to go to Dublin controversially went to the Tate instead, which expanded its collection to include foreign art and continued to acquire contemporary art. In 1926 and 1937,

1720-539: Was Louisa Augusta, née Fiellerup. George Salting was educated locally and then moved with his family to England and studied at Eton College . In 1853 the family returned to New South Wales, and Salting entered the newly founded University of Sydney. There he won prizes for compositions in Latin hexameters in 1855 and 1857, in Latin elegiacs in 1856, 1857 and 1858, and for Latin essays in 1854 and 1856. Salting graduated with

1763-523: Was always growing. As a consequence he made few mistakes, and these were usually corrected by the pieces being exchanged for better specimens. Salting lived modestly mostly in London, occupying just two living rooms. Except for an occasional few days shooting, he made collecting, and its associated research and study, his occupation. Salting never married and he did not give largely to charities. In spite of his large expenditure on collecting, his fortune increased during his lifetime. Salting died in London and

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1806-603: Was opened that would also house larger income generating exhibitions. In 1987, the Clore Wing opened to house the major part of the Turner bequest and also provided a 200-seat auditorium. (The "Centenary Development", in 2001, provided improved access and public amenities) In 1988, an outpost in north west England opened as Tate Liverpool. This shows various works of modern art from the Tate collection as well as mounting its own temporary exhibitions. In 2007, Tate Liverpool hosted

1849-595: Was renamed the Blavatnik Building after Anglo-Ukrainian billionaire Sir Leonard Blavatnik , who contributed a "substantial" amount of its £260m cost. The youngest person to be awarded a residency at the Tate is Travis Alabanza . Tate Digital is the name of the department responsible for Tate's website and other public-facing digital projects. Since its launch in 1998, Tate's website site has provided information on all four physical Tate galleries (Tate Britain, Tate St Ives, Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern) under

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