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National Portrait Gallery launches an appeal to buy Wellington portrait.

A 160-year-old problem at the National Portrait Gallery will be fixed if it manages to raise £300,000 from the public to buy an unfinished portrait of the Duke of Wellington.

The gallery has launched an appeal to help buy the portrait that would fill a significant hole in its collection, the lack of a significant depiction of one of British history’s most important figures.

“We’ve been seeking to remedy this gap since our founding in 1856,” said the gallery’s director, Nicholas Cullinan. “This has long been identified as a crucial omission in our collection.”

The gallery has been offered the chance to buy Sir Thomas Lawrence’s unfinished portrait of Wellington, known as the Jersey portrait, for £1.3m.

With a donation of £350,000 from the Art Fund and using its own funds, £1m of the total has already been raised. The gallery now needs to find the remainder by the end of March 2017.

Cullinan said the fact it is unfinished made the portrait more compelling. “You focus on the man himself rather than his accoutrements of success and power. This is the one above all others that we wanted to pursue,” he said.

The portrait was commissioned a year after Wellington became prime minister by his friend and admirer Sarah Villiers, the Countess of Jersey, a leading society hostess.


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