Room 34 in National Gallery renamed Blavatnik Family Foundation Room
Room 34 of the National Gallery has been unveiled as the Blavatnik Family Foundation Room in recognition of its significant gift to NG200. The “generous” gift marks the culmination of NG200, the National Gallery’s year-long Bicentenary celebration of “art, creativity and imagination,” that marks “two centuries of bringing people and paintings together.”
Led by Sir Leonard Blavatnik, founder and chairman of Access Industries, the Blavatnik Family Foundation “promotes innovation, discovery and creativity to benefit the whole of society.” Through the Foundation, the Blavatnik family has contributed over $1 billion globally to advance science, education, arts and culture, and social justice, providing “essential funding to dozens of scientists in the early stages of their careers” through the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, made major gifts to universities such as Harvard and Yale and funded The Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.
The foundation has also supported more than 180 leading cultural organisations, including the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy, V&A, Courtauld, and the expansion of Tate Modern.
Room 34 of the National Gallery showcases “the best of British painting” in the latter half of the 18th century. It is the home of iconic works including the monumental horse painting Whistlejacket (about 1762) by George Stubbs (1727-1788), Mr and Mrs Andrews (about 1750) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) and William Hogarth’s (1697-1764) six painting series Marriage A-la Mode (about 1743).
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