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Cultural Gifts Scheme & Acceptance in Lieu Cultural Gifts Scheme & Acceptance in Lieu Report 2015 Contents Preface Appendix 1 Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair, Arts Council England 4 CGS and AIL cases completed 2014/15 72 Introduction Appendix 2 Edward Harley, Chairman, Acceptance in Lieu Panel 5 Members of the Acceptance in Lieu 73 Pre-eminence 5 Panel 2014/15 Allocations 7 Appendix 3 Thanks and acknowledgements 8 Expert advisers 2014/15 74 Cultural Gifts Scheme Cases 2014/15 Appendix 4 1 Italian photography collection 10 Permanent allocation of items reported in earlier 76 2 Collection of 20th-century and years but only decided in 2014/15 contemporary ceramics 12 3 Sir Cedric Morris: Cabbage 14 4 Joan Eardley: Seated Boy 16 5 Lumley missal 18 6 Jean-Jacques Feuchère: Satan 20 Acceptance in Lieu Scheme Cases 2014/15 7 Luca Signorelli: A Man on a Ladder 22 8 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: The Tiled Room 24 9 Ben Nicholson: Cyclades 26 10 Dominic Serres: Two paintings from the Siege of Havana series 28 11 Christopher Lennox-Boyd collections 30 12 Sir Edwin Landseer: A Newfoundland with a Rabbit 34 13 John Constable: The Valley Farm 36 14 Lawrence Alma-Tadema: A Votive Offering 38 15 William Holman Hunt: Tuscan Girl Plaiting Straw 40 16 Pair of Louis XVI console tables attributed to Weisweiler 42 17 East Coker archive 44 18 Archive of the Earls of Raglan 45 19 Papers of Margaret Thatcher 46 20 George Romney: Edward Witts 48 21 A 19th-century steam traction engine 50 22 Archive of the Earls of Dudley 51 23 David Jones: Landscape in Kent 52 24 Breguet ‘Napoleon’ clock 54 Front cover: Tuscan Edgar Degas: Femme se Peignant 56 25 Girl Plaiting Straw by 26 Paintings by Sir Winston Churchill and William Holman Hunt. other Churchill items 58 Photo: Robert Holden 27 Londonderry archive 64 Fine Art Agents 28 Two portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence 66 Left: Breguet 29 Mossymere Woods 68 ‘Napoleon’ clock. Photo: Christie’s 3 Preface Introduction Sir Peter Bazalgette Edward Harley The Cultural Gifts and Acceptance in Lieu schemes provide routes for important This Report for the year ended 30 March 2015 brings together almost 30 cases works of art, heritage objects, manuscripts and archives to come into public with a typically eclectic mix of objects. The increase in applications to the Cultural ownership, so that they can be enjoyed by the many millions who visit our Gifts Scheme (CGS) is particularly encouraging: we had one donation in 2013 and museums and collections. four in 2014, and we can now announce a further increase to six in the pages that follow. More applications are under consideration and we expect that the recent Both schemes are underpinned by tax incentives that make the transfer of these release of a concise guide on how CGS works and its benefits will encourage works into public collections beneficial for their former owners, as well as being a greater uptake. Copies of the guide can be supplied on request. When Acceptance mechanism through which museums and galleries can acquire significant works in Lieu was launched a century ago, it took 30 years for it to become an effective at no cost. In an era in which resources are stretched, but which is nonetheless mechanism for securing important cultural assets for the nation. That CGS is an era of great public popularity for the arts, the Arts Council welcomes the becoming a regular route to enriching museums after only 30 months is most Chancellor’s support for these schemes and is delighted to have responsibility for welcome and a strong endorsement of the decision to introduce it. administering them. In the 2014/15 financial year, the amount of tax that Cultural Gifts and Acceptance in Lieu can write off has increased to £40 million. It is encouraging that the successful applications to CGS have come from such a Above: Sir Peter Above: Edward Harley, wide range of donors and that it is not just the well-established historic collectors Bazalgette, Chair, This report brings together almost 30 cases, including six donations through the Chairman, Acceptance who are coming forward. Nearly all of the material has been collected by the Arts Council England. Cultural Gifts Scheme. We are thrilled that donations of important cultural objects in Lieu Panel. donors themselves, as opposed to having been inherited. They have now decided Photo: Philippa Gedge are increasing and that interest in the scheme continues to grow. Photo: Cazenove generously to share their own love of the material they have collected with a This last year has seen many wonderful works of art being brought into public wider public. I was particularly struck earlier this year by the remarks of John ownership, including paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer, John Constable, Sir Winston Entwistle at a seminar in London on Cultural Gifts. In 2014 he had donated Sam Churchill, William Holman Hunt and Joan Eardley. They will be housed in galleries Walsh’s The Dinner Party (see last year’s Report, page 12). John spoke quite and museums in Bournemouth, Oxford, Kent, Merseyside and Glasgow, where spontaneously of his pleasure with the way the Scheme had worked and how they will delight visitors, and make a valuable contribution to local culture and he had the satisfaction of seeing the painting hanging locally in the Walker Art local economies. Gallery, Liverpool, and of sharing in the interest and delight that it gave to visitors. Less visible but just as significant is the impressive range of important historical and military archives which have come into public ownership: the archive of the Earls of Raglan, containing correspondence from Wellington following the battle Pre-eminence of Waterloo; and the papers of Margaret Thatcher, which holds a personal memoir of the Falklands War and the final draft of her remarks in Downing Street when The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s support for the schemes is greatly welcomed she became Prime Minister in 1979. and this has been the first year in which the amount of tax that Cultural Gifts and Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) can write off has increased to £40 million. While The report also records the various allocations across the United Kingdom of we would have been pleased to have used every penny of the newly available the remarkable collection of works by Frank Auerbach and four other artists funding had there been appropriate cultural property put forward, it would be assembled by his friend Lucian Freud, which was accepted in lieu in 2014. The unwise to see this amount as a target which has to be spent. The AIL Panel’s role collection was successfully shown in Manchester Art Gallery and then at Tate is to ensure that it is only works of pre-eminent importance and those associated Britain and attracted great interest. The works have now been allocated to with significant buildings in public ownership that are accepted under both museums and galleries in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Belfast, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the schemes. That pre-eminence may be interpreted within a national, regional or Lake District, Hartlepool, Wakefield, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, local context, but the works must meet this criterion to qualify. That said, what Walsall, Bristol, Cardiff, Norwich, Cambridge, Oxford and London – several of would be deemed pre-eminent in a national collection will not necessarily be which have rarely or never benefited from the AIL Scheme. Appendix 4 of the the same for a smaller collection. The imaginative use that the Garden Museum report details the distribution. We welcome the way in which these treasures have has made of Sir Cedric Morris’ Cabbage (case 3, page 14) is just one example. The been shared so that every part of the UK benefits. museum has developed an education programme and a group of talks around this painting which has allowed it to develop interest in Morris both as a painter and Each and every gift and offer required careful consideration and negotiation. This in his less well-known role in horticulture and gardening in general. This Cultural dedicated and delicate work is carried out by the Acceptance in Lieu Panel, led by Gift has had a major impact on the museum and the creative use that the museum Edward Harley. To the Panel members and the many expert advisers listed at the has made of this painting is precisely what the acquisition of pre-eminent material back of this report, we owe a special debt of thanks for their time and expertise. should achieve. Sir Peter Bazalgette Chair, Arts Council England 4 5 Allocations The timing of offers in lieu is, in most cases, not something over which the AIL One of the biggest tasks for the Panel in 2014/15 was advising on the allocation Panel has control. An AIL offer is usually initiated by executors of an estate of the collection of works by Frank Auerbach which had been accepted from the deciding that the Scheme provides an appropriate way of meeting an inheritance estate of Lucian Freud. Soon after the announcement was made that these works tax liability, while also allowing the estate to benefit from the douceur. Recent HM had been accepted, the debate began as to whether they should be kept together Revenue & Customs (HMRC) figures show that only around five per cent of estates or dispersed. Those proposing retention as a single unit argued that the collection, are liable to inheritance tax and of these only a very small percentage will include formed by one great artist who considered his friend to be the greatest of his objects of pre-eminent importance.
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