Brueghel Old Master saved for nation as £2.7m target reached
Howard Lake | 9 January 2011 | News
A three-month fundraising campaign by The Art Fund, the National Trust and National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) has successfully secured Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s ‘The Procession to Calvary’ for the nation.
The £2.72 million total was reached when NHMF confirmed it would make a grant of £1,034,000. The Art Fund had launched the appeal with a £500,000 grant, and members of the public, many of whom were Art Fund and National Trust members, donated over £680,000, and nearly £510,000 came from trusts and foundations.
As a result, ‘The Procession to Calvary’ can now be kept on public display at Nostell Priory in West Yorkshire, a National Trust property. It has hung there for over 200 years, but was put up for sale by its owner, Lord St Oswald.
Completed in 1602, ‘The Procession to Calvary’ shows Christ carrying the cross on the way to his crucifixion. He is surrounded by over two hundred figures in a vibrant narrative, set in a contemporary Flemish landscape.
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Image: Brueghel’s The Procession to Calvary © National Trust, Robert Thrift
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
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