HC Deb 04 July 1988 vol 136 cc455-6W
46. Mr. Burns

To ask the Minister for the Arts what progress the national heritage memorial fund has made in saving major works of arts for the nation; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Luce

Lord Charteris and the trustees of the NHMF are to be congratulated on an outstanding record of achievement to date. The trustees have chosen carefully among the hundreds of applications for assistance. I commend their annual reports to my hon. Friend for the descriptions of the wide range of land, buildings, artefacts and works of art saved for the nation with contributions from the fund. I have every confidence in their continuing success. The table illustrates the major works of art which have been saved with NHMF assistance.

Some of the works of art obtained with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund

Poussin "The Finding of Moses"

National Gallery/National Museum of Wales

Gainsborough portrait of Captain Wade

Bath City Council

Rysbrack bust of Shakespeare

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

The Portland Font

British Museum

Renoir's "La Place Clichy"

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Bernini bust of Cardinal dal Pozzo

National Galleries of Scotland

Portrait of Captain Cook

National Maritime Museum

Beechey Portrait of Nelson

National Portrait Gallery

Rembrandt's "View on the Amstel"

British Museum

Rysbrack bust of Alexander Pope

National Portrait Gallery

Tillemans' "Battle of Glenshiel"

National Portrait Gallery of Scotland

Turner watercolour "Gibside"

Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Bellotto "View of the Castle Konigstein"

Manchester City Art Gallery

Terbrugghen "The Concert"

National Gallery

Spencer Frederick Gore "Balcony at the Alhambra"

York City Art Gallery

Turner "Caerlaverock Castle"

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Two Venetian scenes by Canaletto

Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Francis Danby "Sunset at Sea after a Storm"

City of Bristol Art Gallery

Two Gainsborough landscapes

Ipswich Museum and Art Gallery

Two paintings by John E. Ferneley Snr.

Leicester Museums and Art Galleries

Picasso's "Weeping Woman"

Tate Gallery

Poussin "The Triumph of Pan"

National Gallery

Watercolours of Stowe by C. Nattes

Buckinghamshire County Museum

Poussin "The Ashes of Phocium"

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Hogarth "The Wedding Dance"

Tate Gallery

Bellotto "A View of Verona"

National Trust, Powis Castle

Constable "The Opening of Waterloo Bridge"

Tate Gallery