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4 unusual facts about Augustus Daniel


Augustus Daniel

In 1929, the Gallery bought the Wilton Diptych and Titian's group portrait of The Vendramin Family; these are considered the two major purchases of Daniel's directorship.

Sir Augustus Moore Daniel (1866 – 1950) was the Director of the National Gallery in London, England, for five years from January 1929 to December 1933.

As a young man, Daniel travelled abroad studying the attribution of paintings with Roger Fry.

He was appointed as a Trustee of the National Gallery in 1925, apparently due to his being a personal friend and golfing partner of the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin.



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