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Review 2008/2009 Review 2008/2009 Review 2008/2009 2 Preface by the Chairman of the Trustees 3 Foreword by the Director 4 2008/2009 Highlights 6 Extending and Broadening Audiences 12 Developing the Collection 16 Increasing Understanding of Portraiture and the Collection 24 Maximising Financial Resources 30 Improving Services 33 Developing Staff 34 Acquisitions 38 Supporters 41 Exhibitions 42 Financial Report 46 Staff Front cover Mary Neville, Lady Dacre, and her son Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre by Hans Eworth, 1559 Back cover Zaha Hadid (detail) Changing digital portrait by Michael Craig-Martin, 2008 Inside front cover Mary Seacole (detail) by Albert Charles Challen, 1869 Inside back cover ‘Self’ Self-portrait (detail) by Marc Quinn, 2006 © the artist Photograph: Todd-White Art Photography. Courtesy Jay Jopling/White Cube (London) Preface by the Chairman of the Trustees Board of Trustees Amidst these increasingly challenging Trustee since 2003. Our three senior 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 times the Gallery has achieved some Trustees – Flora Fraser, Alexandra Shulman Professor Sir David Cannadine, FBA, FRSL remarkable successes. Another year of and Sir John Weston – completed their Chairman record attendance, with more than 1.8m periods of office in October 2008, The Rt Hon. the Baroness Ashton of Upholland visits in London, has been complemented and I am deeply grateful to them for Lord President of the Council (until October 2008) by major developments in many areas. their many, varied and distinguished The Rt Hon. Baroness Royall of Blaisdon Lord President of the Council (from October 2008) These include new acquisitions, some contributions. I am pleased to welcome made possible through the increasingly Augustus Casely-Hayford, Lord Janvrin Zeinab Badawi important Portrait Fund; a refreshed and Marina Warner to the Board. I also Sir Nicholas Blake website, now attracting 17 million visits want to thank David Ross, who offered Professor Robert Boucher, CBE, FREng each year; extended research work and his resignation in December: he, too, was (d. 25 March 2009) scholarship; outstanding exhibitions an excellent trustee and a most effective Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford and displays; the expanding national Chair of the Audit and Compliance (from October 2008) programme; and enhanced learning work. Committee. Baroness Ashton of Upholland The Marchioness of Douro The last was the focus for the successful took up another post in government, and Amelia Chilcott Fawcett, CBE Portrait Gala when 420 guests helped so completed her period as one of our Deputy Chairman and Chair of the Development Board to raise over £185,000 for the Education ex-officio Trustees. I am grateful for her Programme. Once again the Gallery’s support, and I am pleased to welcome Flora Fraser (until October 2008) supporters, including many artists and Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, who has been Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE writers, were out in force, demonstrating appointed in her place as the Lord President President of the Royal Academy their unstinting support for what we do. of the Council. I would like to thank all the The Rt Hon. The Lord Janvrin, GCB, GCVO, QSO Trustees for their support in every aspect of (from October 2008) Also in spring 2009 the Department for the Gallery’s work and I am also delighted Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Culture, Media and Sport included the to welcome Stephen Robertson to the David Mach, RA Gallery in a pilot round of peer reviews of board of the National Portrait Gallery three national museums. The report is not Company as its first independent director. Sir Christopher Ondaatje, OC, CBE only very positive, but also demonstrates David Ross Chair of the Audit and Compliance Committee how additional investment would further On behalf of all of the Trustees I want to (until December 2008) extend the range and reach of our work. express my heartfelt gratitude to all of Professor Sara Selwood However constrained government’s the Gallery’s staff and volunteers. This Alexandra Shulman, OBE resources, the Gallery has a very strong has been another outstanding year, and (until October 2008) case for increased public funding which the many accomplishments described in Marina Warner, CBE, FBA would enable us to offer yet more creative these pages vividly demonstrate how their (from October 2008) engagement, not only in London, but expertise and enthusiasm are matched Sir John Weston, KCMG across the nation as a whole. by their determination and dedication. (until October 2008) The Gallery was shocked to hear, at the end of March, of the sudden death of Professor Bob Boucher, and I should like to pay warm and appreciative tribute to Professor Sir David Cannadine his wise and dedicated involvement as a David Cannadine by Tom Miller, 2009 © Tom Miller Foreword by the Director The acquisitions made during the year Life, 1990–2005, the first Taylor Wessing Sheffield and the South West, part-funded exemplify the central place of the Collection Photographic Portrait Prize, Gerhard Richter by government, goes from strength to in the life of the Gallery. Two works were Portraits and Constable Portraits: The strength, marked by a Journal Culture acquired with Portrait Fund support. Their Painter and His Circle. In their very Award for ‘North Face’, a project acquisition also demonstrated the continuing different ways these made connections organised by the North East Museums generosity of The Art Fund, the National between an increasingly broad interest in Hub in partnership with the Gallery. The Heritage Memorial Fund and the Heritage portraiture, a wider understanding of the Learning Department and policy were Lottery Fund, together with conspicuous Collection, and the themes of inspiration reshaped in order to reach out to more support given by a number of individual and achievement that link them together. people who would not otherwise gain from donors, trusts and foundations. Whether Fascinating displays throughout the year, participation in our work. More broadly, the Richard Arkwright portrait by Joseph from contemporary Olympians, organised we also completed a new Strategic Plan Wright of Derby, acquired jointly with the to mark the Beijing Games, to Tudor 2009–15, which sets out the ambitions Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Lady Dacre and Jacobean authors, featuring recent for the Gallery, from staff development, and her son by Hans Eworth, the recently acquisitions, drew in many visitors, as did research and sustainability to fundraising discovered portrait of Mary Seacole, the events in the public programme, from and trading opportunities, and this is now John Dryden by John Michael Wright or music and talks to successful activities for published on the website. the self-portrait sculpture by Marc Quinn, children and young people. these are major additions to the Collection. For their help with this year’s work I wish They are complemented by some wonderful In early 2009 the new website was launched, to thank government, sponsors, donors, commissioned portraits, including those of building on work over the previous twelve corporate and individual Members, Zaha Hadid, Akram Khan, Sir Peter Mansfield years to create a site that expresses many Associates, Patrons and Life Patrons, and and Sir Paul Nurse, made possible with of the Gallery’s functions directly while all the trusts and foundations that have corporate and foundation support (see increasingly becoming a digital destination so generously supported our efforts and page 38). in its own right. Various research projects endeavours. With ongoing help I know we are already featured on the website, which can create an even brighter future for the Record attendance for 2008/9 is also will increasingly become the most effective Gallery over the next years. exciting news. Behind that figure lie a place to post research results, including number of outstanding exhibitions, those gained from Making Art in Tudor including Vanity Fair Portraits, Brilliant Britain and the Later Victorian Portraits Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings, the catalogue. The national programme, BP Portrait Award 2008, Wyndham Lewis including partnership with the National Portraits, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Trust and work with the North East, Sandy Nairne Sandy Nairne by Eamonn McCabe, 2008 © Eamonn McCabe ‘Fantastic – such a humbling ‘enthralling … put together with ‘Constable Portraits is the best display of talent … such a range great intelligence and sensitivity…’ kind of exhibition you can have: of techniques … inspirational.’ Andrew Graham-Dixon on Wyndham an opinion-changing display…’ Review of BP Portrait Award 2008, Lewis Portraits, Sunday Times Waldemar Januszczak on Constable The Times Portraits, Sunday Times ‘…exceptionally rich in range, ‘A wealth of personal photographs … vitality and originality … an ‘Part of the National Portrait The hang is at times so surprising exhilarating collection.’ Gallery’s enterprising program of that it takes your breath away.’ special exhibitions, Gerhard Richter Sue Steward on the Taylor Wessing Portraits is a real winner…’ Joanna Pitman on Annie Leibovitz, Photographic Portrait Prize 2008, The Times Evening Standard Paul Levy, The Wall Street Journal 2008/2009 Highlights There were 1.8 million visits to St Martin’s An upgraded and improved Gallery website The Landing Access Project, supported by Place, the highest number the Gallery has was relaunched in January. There were the DCMS/Wolfson Fund, was completed, ever achieved – and the Gallery was listed 17.5 million visits
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