The Art Fund - Independent art charity in the UK that exists to save art for everyone to enjoy

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The Art Fund has pledged £2 million in a bid to help secure it for the nation

Save 50% at Britain's most exciting exhibitions and enjoy free entry to 200 museums, galleries and historic houses. Click here to join.

Help save Rubens's Apotheosis of James I and other studies

Country House Car Boot Sale, Art and Food Fair
The Shropshire Committee of The Art Fund invite you to take a pitch or just visit with family and friends.

Evening Visit to The Lightbox, Woking
A free evening reception at The Lightbox gallery which had been recently shortlisted for The Art Fund Museum Prize.

Study Visit: Dress Collection at the Museum of London
A wonderful opportunity to see some of the 24,000 objects in the Museum's Dress colletion, and to learn of the techniques and processes involved in their conservation.

Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
Illustrations, drawings and watercolours of the natural world from the 17th and 18th centuries, chosen by Sir David Attenborough.

China Design Now
The first UK exhibition to explore the impact of rapid economic development on architecture and design in urban China.

Objects of Desire: The LAPADA London Fair
Seventy leading antiques dealers will be represented at the third annual LAPADA event. Feauring furniture, sculpture, jewellery and more.

Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze
Marvellous works from the collection of a Paris doctor who bequeathed over 500 pictures to the Louvre in 1869. A fascinating insight into the history of taste and 19th-century art collecting.

Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at 'La Loge'
The spectacle of modern society at the theatre, as depicted by Renoir, Cassatt, Degas and others.

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Portrait of Thomas Allan

John Watson Gordon 1788 - 1864.

Site Highlights

Art Saved - Search or browse the art we've helped to save and the places where you can see the work. Museums can apply for a grant.

Join Us - Help save our artistic heritage. Find out about membership benefits, including our magazine Art Quarterly.

Policy & Campaigns - Read the latest news, find out about our campaigns and have your say on our ArtForum page.

What's On - Plan your art itinerary whether you're at home or away using our Events Calendar. Support us and find out about volunteering.

Donate - legacies and bequests help us enormously. Find out about these and other ways to help.

About Us - find out about what we do and what we believe in and the people that are behind The Art Fund.

Some of the over 450 galleries for whom we have saved art