Museum sponsorship - Running in the family.

The Economist (US) | April 22, 2000 | Copyright

The National Portrait Gallery in London could never have built its new wing without the support of one remarkable donor

WHEN Charles Saumarez Smith became the director of the National Portrait Gallery in 1994 at the relatively young age of 39, he knew he would probably be the man who took it into the 21st century. But what sort of building the gallery would need was another issue altogether.

Stuck within a bend in the road behind the far grander National Gallery on Trafalgar Square, the NPG has always looked inwards for its raison d'etre. No sooner did ...

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