Sir Thomas Brock

Sir Henry Tate

exhibited 1898

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In Tate Britain

Manton Foyer and Stairs

Free entry
Artist
Sir Thomas Brock 1847–1922
Medium
Bronze on stone base
Dimensions
Object: 533 x 584 x 356 mm, 43.5 kg
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by subscribers 1898
Reference
N01765

Display caption

This bust of Henry Tate commemorated the opening of the original Tate Gallery. Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899) had made his fortune through a new process of sugar refining and by selling sugar in neat, white cubes. In 1889 he offered to donate a collection of contemporary British art to the National Gallery. Since no suitable space could be found for these works, Tate provided the funds to build an entirely new gallery at Millbank, which opened in 1897. Brock was a successful portrait sculptor of the Victorian era, whose crowning achievement was the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace

Gallery label, February 2010

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