When I think of the thousands and thousands of pounds which have been spent by the National Art Collections Fund on the purchase of paintings—some of questionable merit and dubious condition—by Old Masters already represented in the National Gallery—it makes me boil with rage to think that in 1905 it would not contribute one halfpenny towards the purchase for the nation of a picture by one of the Great French Masters of the late nineteenth century. It was a short-sighted policy, but the Fund's inertia and snobbish ineptitude are entirely characteristic of the habits of art-officialdom in England.


Rutter, Frank. Art in My Time, pp. 118–119. Rich & Cowan, London, 1933.

Frank Rutter Quotes

When I think of the thousands and thousands of pounds which have been spent by the National Art Collections Fund on the purchase of paintings—some...

When I think of the thousands and thousands of pounds which have been spent by the National Art Collections Fund on the purchase of paintings—some...

When I think of the thousands and thousands of pounds which have been spent by the National Art Collections Fund on the purchase of paintings—some...

When I think of the thousands and thousands of pounds which have been spent by the National Art Collections Fund on the purchase of paintings—some...