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Acceptance in Lieu Report 2005/06 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 3 Acceptance in Lieu Report 2005/06 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 4 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 1 Contents Preface 3 Introduction 5 1 The process of making an offer 7 Criteria for pre-eminence 8 Association with a building 10 Expert advice 10 The Panel’s recommendation 10 Open market price 11 Provenance 11 Allocation 12 In situ offers 13 Time involved 14 Benefits to the Offeror 14 Conditional Exemption 15 Funding for hybrid arrangements 16 The Contracting Out Order 2005 17 Panel membership 17 Acknowledgments 18 2 AIL cases 2005/06 1 Nicholas Hilliard: Two Portrait Miniatures 19 2 Jean-Étienne Liotard: Portrait Miniature of Laura Tarsi 23 3 12th Century Manuscript of Peter of Poitiers 24 4 Archive of the Earls of Guilford 26 5 Archive of the Earls of Coventry 28 6 My Ladye Nevells Booke 30 7 Three Bronzes by Gertrude Spencer Stanhope 33 8 The Hengrave Hall Archive 34 9 The ‘Viotti’ Violin by Antonio Stradivari 36 10 Meindert Hobbema: Wooded Landscape 38 Cover 11 The Harpur-Crewe Archive 40 The Viotti 12 Collection of Chinese Bronzes, Ceramics and Paintings 42 Stradivari Violin: 13 The Newton Hall Athena 44 front, side and back views 14 The Archive of Sir Richard and Lady Burton 46 © The Royal 15 Collection of Chinese Carvings and Ceramics 48 Academy of 16 Duncan Grant: The Ass 50 Music 17 Archive of Roger Fry and Helen Anrep 52 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 2 18 Paintings from Penrhyn Castle 54 19 Pablo Picasso: La Femme qui Pleure 58 20 Three Watercolours by JMW Turner 61 21 Collection of Early 19th Century Welsh and English Porcelain 64 22 Collection of 19th & 20th century Paintings Drawings and Prints 69 23 John Everett Millais: Twins 71 24 Two pieces of English silver 74 25 JMW Turner: Naples from the Mole 76 26 A William and Mary Silver Toilet Set 78 27 The Scottish National Covenant of 1638 80 28 Ten Sculptures by Barbara Hepworth 82 29 Chattels from Chirk Castle 86 30 CR Ashbee: Two Peacock Pendant Brooches 88 31 Morris & Co. Inlaid Mahogany Secretaire 90 32 Group of Scottish Portraits 92 33 Bloomsbury Furnishings and Ceramics 94 34 Edward Lear: Jerusalem 96 35 Rosalba Carriera: Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham 98 36 Samuel Palmer: Yellow Twilight 100 37 Collection of Meissen Stoneware and Porcelain 102 38 Stanley Spencer: Eric Williams 104 Appendices 1 List of objects, allocations and tax values for 2005/06 106 2 Members of the AIL Panel 108 3 Expert Advisers 2005/06 109 4 Allocation of items reported in 2003/04 and 2004/05 111 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 3 Preface It is always a welcome moment in the Museums, Libraries and Archives 3 Council’s year when the AIL Report is published and there is the opportunity to reflect on the enormous contribution the Scheme makes towards enriching the collections in the UK’s museums, libraries and archives. The Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Scheme is in fact now the most important single source of acquisitions for the UK and it is worth noting that in the year under review more cases have been completed than in any single previous year. MLA has a wide range of programmes aimed at improving access to the treasures which enrich our national, regional and local collections. AIL, along with the PRISM Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, ensures not only that museums, libraries and archives can provide wider and improved access and better use of existing collections but also that they can continuously enrich the collections which they present to the public. Britain’s leading cultural institutions were founded on the private collections of enlightened individuals, which provided the impetus for the establishment of the great public collections. The British Museum, founded in 1753, Dulwich Picture Gallery (the first public art gallery in the UK), which opened to the public in 1817, the National Gallery established in 1824, and the Tate Gallery of 1897 – all had at their core a collection formed by private individuals. A similar history could be traced for the municipal collections which opened up in almost every major city in Victorian Britain. AIL provides a model way of ensuring that many of the most important items in private collections can continue to become part of our public heritage. Museum or galleries must offer collections of objects which have significance, meaning and value. This significance may vary from that of a work of art of world importance to a simple historical artefact that tells the story of a particular part of the UK and the role it had at a particular point in history. To draw out this significance these objects need to be interpreted, arranged and displayed in ways that reflect the changing interests of those who visit museums and the various facets of meaning that each object contains. Indeed, it is a misunderstanding of the role of museums and how they engage their audiences if it is supposed that a static, unchanging museum display can ever be an appropriate method of attracting and exciting an audience and encouraging a developing and maturing understanding of the objects on display. The fact is that museums, libraries and archives must all develop if they are to flourish and to engage a growing and changing audience. The most successful of these institutions have always been characterised by a dynamic combination of two intertwining activities – the care of existing 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 4 4 collections and the enhancement of those collections through active and planned acquisition. Of course, museums can refresh their exhibitions by redisplay or rehanging of works which have been stored out of view. An increasingly vigorous programme of loans and exchanges is also helping to inject innovation and energy into the UK’s museums domain. But the third vital strand, acquisition, is absolutely crucial. MLA is proud that AIL makes such a vital contribution to that activity, but for the health of the domain as a whole, it is not encouraging to note that other sources of acquisition funding have, in relative terms, gone into decline. There is a challenge here to all three domains both to find new ways to generate non-public funding and to marshal new arguments for public funds based on demonstration of the real economic, educational, cultural and lifestyle value of these institutions. Mark Wood Chairman, MLA 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 5 Introduction Once again we had a busy year with a wide range of transactions 5 successfully concluded. During the 12 months ended 31 March 2006, we completed 38 cases as a result of which objects with a value of £25.2m were accepted on behalf of the nation and tax of £13.2m was satisfied. The figures for recent years are as follows: Year to Number Value of objects Tax 31 March of cases accepted settled 2001 23 £24.6m £16.0m 2002 27 £35.1m £26.6m 2003 37 £39.9m £15.8m 2004 23 £21.7m £15.0m 2005 28 £13.0m £8.9m 2006 38 £25.2m £13.2m Once again there was a glorious mix of paintings, miniatures, sculptures, furniture, porcelain, jewellery and manuscripts. Objects included the Viotti Stradivarius, one of the great musical instruments of the 18th century, there were ten sculptures from Barbara Hepworth’s studio in St Ives, there were miniatures of Francis Bacon and of Elizabeth’s favourite, Lord Essex, by Hilliard and an exquisite portrait of a Greek lady by Liotard. We should also mention a Samuel Palmer watercolour that featured prominently in the recent exhibition at the British Museum, valuable study collections of Chinese, Meissen, Swansea and Worcester porcelain and a number of important archives. These objects have been widely distributed throughout the UK, to Barnsley, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Lewes, Liverpool, Manchester, Northampton, Oxford, Swansea and York as well as to national museums, galleries and libraries in Edinburgh, Cardiff and London. As usual the Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam Museums have done well but this is largely due to the excellent relations which they have fostered with lenders to their collections and the wish that lenders have expressed that their loans should eventually be converted into offers in lieu on their deaths. We strongly urge other museums and galleries to develop similar relationships with lenders to their collections. The National Trust has also acquired chattels that had belonged to the families of the original owners of Penrhyn Castle, Chirk Castle and Ickworth. The County Record Office in Derbyshire has benefited from the Scheme as has Cambridge University Library and the National Library of Scotland. Objects accepted in previous years were allocated during 2005/06 to the Ashmolean, the Holbourne Museum, Bath, the National War Museum of Scotland, Falmouth Art Gallery, the Ulster Museum, Tate St Ives and Temple Newsam House, Leeds and manuscripts were allocated during 2005/06 to the British Library, the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, Sheffield City Archives and the Tate Archive. 12693Route 6/19/06 7:51 PM Page 6 6 The market value of the objects acquired in lieu during the past year amounted to £25.2 million. This is a sum substantially greater than the combined purchase grants of all museums, galleries and libraries in the UK. At a time when museum resources are so tightly stretched, the AIL Scheme represents a vital source of new acquisitions for our public collections. Furthermore, if the owners, instead of offering the objects under the Scheme, had had to sell on the open market to raise funds to meet their tax liabilities, it is highly likely that a significant number of important works of art and archives would have been sold to overseas buyers, thus putting further pressure on the Export Reviewing system and further risking the loss of these treasures to the nation.
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