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Henry Tate

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Henry Tate
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Henry Tate, a sugar refiner who made his fortune partly with sugar cubes, collected contemporary British paintings, including Millais's Ophelia. He offered them to the nation and paid for a gallery at Millbank, which opened in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art, now Tate Britain. The four Tate galleries that grew from it remain free to enter for their permanent collections.
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