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	Tate \| FAQs: History
		Henry Tate was apprenticed at the age of 13 to his elder brother in his grocery shop.
		Henry Tate had intended to donate his collection to the National Gallery, but the trustees were prepared to accept only a sample.
		Sir Henry was merely a bulk purchaser of cane sugar and there is no evidence that his business came any closer than that to the post slavery Caribbean plantations.
	www.tate.org.uk /about/faqs/history_q03.htm (1013 words)

	Tate Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eventually Henry Tate who, as well as a sugar magnate, was also a major collector of Victorian academic art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the state pay for the site and revenue costs.
		Tate Modern, in Bankside Power Station on the south side of the Thames, exhibits the national collection of modern art from 1900 to the present day.
		In 2006, it was revealed that the Tate was the only national-funded museum not to be accredited to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), as it did not wish to abide by guidelines that deaccessioned work should first be offered to other museums.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tate_Gallery (1163 words)

	Montblanc Sir Henry Tate July/August 2006 Stylophiles Online
		Henry Tate went from being a clergyman's son to a wealthy Sugar magnate, and a noted patron of the Arts in Great Britain.
		Tate was born in 1819, the son of a clergyman.
		The Montblanc Sir Henry Tate pen carries forward elements of both the Victorian era of Sir Henry Tate's lifetime, as well as aspects of the modern art for which the gallery is known.
	www.stylophilesonline.com /07-06/07tate.htm (1172 words)

	Tate \| Events & Education \| 1807
		Tate holds the national collections of British art from 1500 to the present day and contemporary international art.
		As the repository of a national Collection with its roots in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Tate has a special interest in the 1807 commemoration, and there is a specific historical strand which links Tate to the event.
		Sir Henry Tate, while not yet born when the 1807 Act was passed, was a notable philanthropist whose fortune was founded on the importation and refining of sugar, the product which emerged from the history of slave colonies in the Caribbean.
	www.tate.org.uk /1807 (330 words)

	Henry Tate, sugar magnate, philanthropist and Unitarian
		Tate Sir Henry Tate died on 5 December 1899.
		He was the founder of the Tate Gallery, in London, which opened on 21 July 1887 and to which he gave his own collection of 65 paintings, a number of which were by Millais.
		His fortune came from sugar refining and from his patenting of the means of cutting sugar into dice-sized cubes.
	www.hibbert-assembly.org.uk /henry.tate/tateindex.htm (62 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Sa-Sl)
		Sir George Gabriel Stokes was an Irish mathematician and physicist to whom is due the modern theory of viscuous fluids and the discovery that rays beyond the violet end of the spectrum produce flourescence in certain substances.
		Sir Henry Bart Pottinger was a distinguished British soldier and diplomat.
		Sir Richard Steele was an Irish author, founder, editor and, with Addison, chief contributor of The Tatler and The Spectator.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/CD.HTM (8936 words)

	Elsewhere: London - The Tate Britain - Representing Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Tate was designed to house the collection of 19th Century painting and sculpture given to the nation by Sir Henry Tate and a group of British paintings transferred from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
		Tate, whose director recently participated in a symposium at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which is currently having a year-long series of exhibitions that also take a thematic rather than chronological approach to the display of its treasures as it prepares for a major expansion of its facilities.
		Sir John Everett Millais’ (1829-1896) beautiful "Ophelia" (1851-2), floating beneath a weeping willow, singing in her madness as she drowns, was in real life Elizabeth Siddal, whose father sent Millais the doctor’s bill when poor Lizzy caught a dreadful cold.
	www.thecityreview.com /tate.htm (4343 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Tate galleries' success story
		Tate persuaded the government to agree to commission and run the building in 1894, and his efforts paid off three years later when the brand new gallery opened at Millbank.
		Tate Britain was to occupy the whole of the building at Millbank, and be devoted to British art from 1500 to the present day.
		Tate Britain, meanwhile, also hit headlines as it continued to hold the controversial Turner Prize, which was instrumental in bringing artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin to the public's attention.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1626396.stm (864 words)

	Francis Legatt Chantrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (April 7, 1782–November 25, 1841), was an English sculptor of the Georgian era.
		The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts; of George III in the Guildhall, London; of George IV at Brighton; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow (also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St.
		Mary's Church, Handsworth); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc. Of his equestrian statues the most famous are those of Sir Thomas Munro in Calcutta, and the Duke of Wellington in front of the London Exchange.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Legatt_Chantrey (1015 words)

	Anthony Padgett, Religion, Tate Galleries, Sir Nicholas Serota, Discrimination, Equal Opportunities.
		Sir Henry Tate was a Unitarian and Padgett has founded the religion of Postmodern Religious Art, as an offshoot of Unitarianism.
		Tate has accepted a Modernist view of Religion that dates back to the 19th century but is no longer applicable in a multi-faith world.
		Tate’s response was that an application to perform is an application for the sale of goods and not a form of employment.
	uk.geocities.com /anthonydpadgett/tatecase.html (1154 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Tate Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was extended by another gift of Tate's in 1899, and in 1910 the Turner wing was completed, the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen.
		The Tate Modern, Britain's first national modern-art museum in 100 years, opened in a large, refurbished power station on the south bank of the Thames in 2000.
		Super-collector Charles Saatchi is opening a new gallery across the street from the Tate Modern, featuring artwork that was denied to the Tate.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TateGall.asp (329 words)

	Guardian \| Sir Edwin Manton
		Sir Edwin Manton, who has died aged 96, was a driving force in the creation of the American International Group (AIG), a collector of paintings by Constable and his contemporaries, and a generous benefactor to the arts, the church and medicine.
		Knighted in 1994 for charitable services to the Tate Gallery he was, after Sir Henry Tate, the most generous benefactor in its history and continued to involve himself in the affairs of the gallery well into his 90s.
		In creating a fund that would respond to the Tate's wish to strengthen its American collection, he was giving expression both to his affection for his birthplace and to his enthusiasm for his adopted country.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5310724-103684,00.html (917 words)

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		Sir Henry Tate was the inventor of the sugar cube, and gave the nation the Tate Gallery.
		Erected by Henry Budd in 1825 it is the burial place of his father Richard Budd and others of the family.
		It was described by a writer of that time as “without doubt the finest sepulchral monument in the open air in the metropolis, and perhaps not equalled by any one in the kingdom.” You can certainly say that the design of this memorial in the heart of Brixton is unique.
	www.brixtonsociety.org.uk /trailone.htm (2540 words)

	About Treasures of British Art Tiny Folio \| Abbeville Press
		Tate had risen from modest beginnings to build a fortune on refined sugar, and in particular the sugar cube.
		Henry Tate believed in the power of art to educate and enrich the lives of those who had access to it, and the gallery has opened its doors to a large and appreciative audience ever since.
		Henry Tate paid for an extension that was completed in 1899, and subsequent additions were funded by the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen and his son.
	www.abbeville.com /Products/Excerpt/0789205416Excerpt.htm (950 words)

	LONDON LOST AND FOUND I art : features
		The Tate Modern is more likely to be an idea about art at a certain moment, or a certain time, or a certain theme in art.
		At the Tate Britain, the idea of the collection displays is to try to explore the relationships between art and Britishness as part of the need to rationalise isolating the art of a country.
		At the Tate Britain we’re getting to a point where there will be a number of rooms which just stay put because I think the price you pay is that there are certain constituency visitors who get very cross when every time they come their favourite picture has moved.
	www.londonlostandfound.com /art/artfeatures6.htm (2479 words)

	Southampton Solent University Library
		It was established that the picture collection of Henry Tate was a typical Victorian collection of modern narrative and landscape art primarily of the English School painted by a large number of Academy artists.
		Henry Tate bought most of his pictures from exhibitions and at auction, frequently paying over the market value to thwart his competitors.
		Research revealed that Henry Tate was not only an important art patron and successful businessman but also a munificent public benefactor whose philanthropic acts were extended equally to the domains of health and education.
	www.solent.ac.uk /library/favdb/viewfull.asp?256 (493 words)

	Travelocity.com: Destination Guides: England
		Sir Henry Tate, a sugar producer, started the collection with only 70 or so paintings.
		But the Tate has grown and grown and was considerably enlarged when J. Turner bequeathed some 300 paintings and 19,000 watercolors to England upon his death.
		The Tate Modern, a repository of avant-garde modern art, is directly across the river.
	dest.travelocity.com /DestGuides/0,1840,TCYDE\|2477\|\|\|0221020809\|F\|N,00.html (374 words)

	Sir Henry Tate(2006)
		With a generous donation of £80,000 and 65 valuable paintings from his private collection, Sir Henry Tate laid the foundations for the most important collection of British art in the United Kingdom in 1879.
		Today, the name “Tate” stands for a unique network of the fine arts – for four world-renowned museums in which the cultural spirit of their eponymous patron lives on.
		The Patron of Art Edition “Sir Henry Tate”, strictly limited to 4810 fountain pens, is characterised by clear, tectonic shapes.
	www.airlineintl.com /montblanc/henry_tate_mb.htm (413 words)

	Sir Henry Tate
		English merchant and founder of the National Gallery of British Art (Tate Gallery), was born at Chorley, Lancashire, in 1819.
		The National Gallery could not have accepted more than a selection from Tate's pictures, which were not all up to the standard of Trafalgar Square; and even when he offered to build a new gallery for them, it was found difficult to secure a suitable site.
		What Tate offered was to spend £80,000 upon a building if the government would provide the ground; and in 1892 this offer was accepted.
	www.nndb.com /people/449/000098155 (406 words)

	ArtLex on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
		John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), and John Melhuish Strudwick (1849-1937) are among the later exponents of this tradition.
		Chaucer at the Court of Edward III, 1856-68, oil on canvas, 123.2 x 99.1 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
		The Bath of Psyche, 1890, oil on canvas, 189.2 x 62.2 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/p/preraphaelite.html (877 words)

	ArtLex on Romanticism
		In England the Romantic tradition began with Henry Fuseli (Swiss-English, 1741-1825) and William Blake (1757-1827), and culminated with Joseph M. Turner (1775-1851) and John Constable (1776-1837).
		In his native Switzerland, Fuseli studied to be a priest, and then came to London in the 1760s to study writers of 'genius', such as Shakespeare and Milton.
		gouache on paper laid on wood, 66.0 x 101.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/r/romanticism.html (1350 words)

	ArtLex on English Art
		Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792), General John Burgoyne, c.
		Julia Margaret Cameron, Sir John Herschel, 1867, print by A.L. Coburn, c.
		1914, oil on canvas, 152.4 x 112.4 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/e/english.html (1114 words)

	Tate, Sir Henry (1819-1899) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 'Tate' of Tate and Lyle fame, was born in Chorley and was the son of a clergyman.
		He founded The Tate Gallery, on the site of the old Millbank prison, by paying the building costs and by donating his own collection of 65 paintings to form the nucleus of the collection.
		Tate became a baronet in 1898 but died the following year.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Tate.html (245 words)

	The Tate Gallery
		It is to Sir Henry Tate that we owe the building and some sixty of the pictures it shelters.
		Henry Tate invented a machine that would cut up the sugar loaves into small pieces just the size wanted for a cup of tea.
		Sir Francis Chantrey, who died in 1841, left a legacy to the nation.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/tate-gallery-14.shtml (957 words)

	Pictures To See In London
		Sir Anthony Van Dyck's " Equestrian Portrait of Charles I." is considered a fine work, showing the King mounted on a dun horse and attended by Sir Thomas Morton.
		Sir Joshua loved to give a touch of quaintness to his youthful sitters, as in little Penelope Boothby's well-known portrait, and the young people were very fond of the artist.
		Founded by Sir Henry Tate, it is officially styled the National Gallery of British Art, and is considered as a branch of the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles30/art-pictures-10.shtml (3352 words)

	Commerce and Entrepreneurs in Manchester - Charles Mackintosh, Henry Tate, Waring & Gillow, John Whittaker and Hugh ...
		Born in Chorley, Lancashire in 1819, Henry Tate was to eventually make his name and fortune as a sugar magnate and multi-millionaire, and the donor of the celebrated Tate Gallery London to the nation.
		Tate had amassed a sizeable collection of British paintings at his home in Park Hill and decided to give them to the nation, to be housed in the New Tate gallery on the Millbank site, which had been donated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
		Sir Henry Tate died on Saturday 5th December 1899 at Park Hill aged 80 years.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/commerce/commerce5.html (2548 words)

	Pikle - London Cross - 37 - The pockpitted Tate - Millais moves from front to back, and Ophelia gets expensive
		It was specially commissioned in 1894, as a consequence of Sir Henry Tate's generosity, to be the national gallery of British art.
		In the early 1960s, the Tate's director, Sir Norman Reid, made attempts to replace it with something artistically superior, but these were blocked by the statue's owner, the Ministry of Works.
		Although entrance to Tate Britain is free and a view of Ophelia would normally be free too, while the 'Truth to Nature' exhibition was on, it was only possible to see her by paying the £8.50 special exhibition entrance fee.
	www.pikle.demon.co.uk /londoncross/londoncross37.html (714 words)

	Brixton Unitarian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Early members included (later Sir) Henry Tate (as in Tate & Lyle Ltd. and The Tate Gallery) and the Mappins (as in Mappin & Webb, the Royal jeweller and silversmith).
		Sir Henry Tate gave generously to Brixton, building the free library and a nurses' home.
		The original church was destroyed by bombing in 1941 and met in the Effra Road Synagogue and in temporary accommodation until the heroic building of the fine new church premises in 1962 which we enjoy today.
	www.unitarian.org.uk /ldpa/brixton (589 words)

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