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Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1899, Page 5

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Tby electbic telegbaph.— copyeigut.] » DEATH OF A PATRON OF ART. ♦ SIR HENRY TATE. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received December 6, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. Sir Henry Tate, the founder of the Tate art collection and picture gallery, has just died, at the ago of 80. [The National Gallery of British Art, Grosvenor-road, London, S.W., was presented to the nation by Mr. Henry '.Late and opened by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in July, 1897. The site, that of the, old Millbank Prison, was placed by the Government at the disposal of Mr. Tate, who built the Gallery at his own expense at a cost of over £100,000, and endowed it with sixty-five pictures. To these were added ninety-eight transferred from Trafalgar Square, eighteen presented by Mr. G. F. Watte (his own works), and the Chantrey collection. This splendid nucleus so nearly filled the seven galleries that Mr. Tate at once enlarged the premises from the original design, to make room for further pictures. The Government has undertaken the maintenance through the Trustees of the National Gallery. Mr. Tate, who was a Lancashireman, born at Chorley, was formerly head of the fiim of Henry Tate and Sons, sugar refiners, of Liverpool and London. He was made a baronet last year.]