Editing National Trust (section)

===Art collection===
[[File:Rembrandt self-portrait 1635.jpeg|thumb|upright|[[Rembrandt]] self-portrait at [[Buckland Abbey]]]]
Since its founding in 1895, the trust has gradually expanded its collection of art, mostly through whole property acquisitions. From 1956 until the post was removed in 2021, there was a curator of pictures and sculpture.<ref name=Laing>{{cite web|url=http://ezine.codart.nl/17/issue/45/artikel/an-interview-with-alastair-laing-retired-curator-of-pictures-and-sculpture-at-the-national-trust-interviewed-by-annette-de-vries/?id=117|title=An interview with Alastair Laing, retired Curator of Pictures and Sculpture at the National Trust, interviewed by Annette de Vries|publisher=Codart eZine|access-date=21 October 2014}}</ref> The first was St John (Bobby) Gore, who was appointed "Adviser on Paintings" in 1956. He published catalogues of the pictures at [[Upton House, Warwickshire|Upton House]], [[Polesden Lacey]], [[Buscot Park]], [[Saltram House]], and [[Ascott House]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/7720791/St-John-Bobby-Gore.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/7720791/St-John-Bobby-Gore.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary of St John Gore|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=13 May 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref> His successor in 1986 was Alastair Laing, who cared for the works of art at 120 properties and created the exhibition ''In Trust for the Nation'', held at the [[National Gallery]] in 1995–96.<ref name=Laing/> From 2009 until 2021, the curator was David Taylor, who approved photographs of the Trust's 12,567 oil paintings to be included in the [[Public Catalogue Foundation]]'s searchable online archive of oil paintings, available since 2012. Artists represented in the Trust's collections include [[Rembrandt]] (whose ''[[Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet]]'' which is now displayed at [[Buckland Abbey]] was recently re-attributed to the artist), [[Hieronymous Bosch]], [[El Greco]], [[Peter Paul Rubens]], [[Angelica Kauffmann]], and [[Stanley Spencer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/search/search/search/keyword:national-trust|title=Paintings held by National Trust|publisher=[[Art UK]]}}</ref>

From the 1980s to 2001 the Trust commissioned artists to create works depicting National Trust places with their "Foundation for Art", and in 2009 launched its [[contemporary art]] programme entitled "Trust New Art" in a joint venture with [[Arts Council England]] and [[Arts Council of Wales]]. As part of this programme, the Trust has worked with over 200 artists to create new artworks inspired by their places including: [[Jeremy Deller]], [[Anya Gallaccio]], [[Antony Gormley]], Sir [[Richard Long (artist)|Richard Long]], [[Serena Korda]], [[Marcus Coates]] and [[Katie Paterson]].<ref>''Trust New Art Guidebook'' (2019)</ref>