The National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Museums & Galleries of Wales collaborated to acquire William Parry's group portrait of Omai, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. The original deadline of 12 July 2002 to raise GBP 1,815,750 to save the picture from going abroad was extended by six weeks but the full amount was not reached. A temporary export bar by the then Arts Minister was placed to allow further time, and the purchaser eventually withdrew the export application. The portrait was subsequently offered to an expanded consortium (of The National Portrait Gallery, the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby, and the National Museums & Galleries of Wales) at the reduced price of £950,000 and has now been acquired with the help of a generous grant of £155,000 from the National Art Collections Fund and the exceptional generosity of a number of private individuals, trusts and supporters of the three museums. The portrait, which was loaned to the National Portrait Gallery by Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd for the duration of the fund-raising campaign, will be on at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales from November, 2003 before being shown at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby from April 2004 for several years.
See the original press release on the National Portrait Gallery's web site. See the second press release.
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