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      • In 1932, the gallery officially adopted the name Tate Gallery and became wholly independent from the National Gallery in 1955.
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  2. It was not possible to honour J.M.W. Turner’s wishes in the 1850s and so the artworks were instead housed in the National Gallery and at the British Museum. £20,000 was offered by Sir Joseph Joel Duveen to build an extension to the National Gallery of British Art, as Tate Britain was then called.

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      With the help of an £80,000 donation from Tate himself, the...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tate_BritainTate Britain - Wikipedia

    Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TateTate - Wikipedia

    In 2000, the Tate Gallery transformed itself into the current-day Tate, consisting of a network of four museums: Tate Britain, which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day; Tate Modern, also in London, which houses the Tate's collection of British and international modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the ...

  5. Tate Britain. In 1892 the site of a former prison, the Millbank Penitentiary, was chosen for the new National Gallery of British Art, which would be under the Directorship of the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square.

  6. …Britain the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain, one of four Tate galleries)—founded in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art (later officially renamed the Tate Gallery in honour of Henry Tate, its initial donor) and part of the National Gallery of Art until 1954, when it formally became an…

  7. www.tate.org.uk › visit › tate-britainTate Britain | Tate

    Tate Britain is free to visit. Our new collection displays explore 500 years of British art and its many stories and voices. Discover much-loved favourites alongside new contemporary artworks, from the Pre-Raphaelites to David Hockney , Bridget Riley and Lubaina Himid .

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