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Homan Potterton, art historian who revitalised Ireland’s National Gallery – obituary
He resigned from his post after eight years in protest at slow progress over repairs, but went on to become an acclaimed writer
Homan Potterton
Homan Potterton, who has died aged 74, was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1980 until 1988, and then devoted himself to writing about art before turning, with remarkable versatility, to produce two books of memoirs and a novel.
The first of these memoirs, Rathcormick, told the story of an Irish upbringing as the youngest of eight children; he was born Homan Franklyn Potterton on May 9 1946 into a Protestant farming family of remote English descent, who lived in a bubble somewhat isolated from their Catholic compatriots but were neither posh nor anglicised.
December 21, 2020 at 1:00pm
British taxpayers donated artworks worth a record-breaking total of $87 million to UK arts institutions this year as part of the government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) tax program, which allows individuals gifting works of national importance to UK institutions to write off inheritance tax debt,
The Art Newspaper reports. According to Arts Council England, the scheme gained significantly in popularity this year, as did the Cultural Gifts Scheme, which allows living individuals to donate works in exchange for tax breaks.
Among the works gifted were a Paul Gaugin manuscript the donation of which satisfied $8.7 million in inheritance debt to London’s Courtauld Institute. Featuring nearly thirty illustrations, the book-length work was made by the artist in his hut on a remote Polynesian island just two months before his death at age fifty-four. It is the only major manuscript by the French Post-Impressionist to be held by a Briti