Cultural Gifts Scheme & AIL Report 2025
January 16 2026
Picture: artscouncil.org.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The UK's Cultural Gifts Scheme & Acceptance in Lieu Report 2025 has been published online. It appears that 2025 was a bumper year with £59.7m of objects accepted/gifted, with £39.3m of tax settled. This is the second highest year over the past decade, it seems.
Here is a selection of the major works of art, which are of interest to this blog, that were accepted in lieu of tax (with their values and new homes) in 2025:
Sir Godfrey Kneller: The Crucifixion, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge - £37,750
Isaac Ouwater: Amsterdam, A View of the Muntoren, Historic England for Kenwood, London - £109,500
Allan Ramsay: Portrait of a Lady, National Trust for Scotland for the Georgian House, Edinburgh - £13,140
Ben Nicholson: 1929 (Kingwater Valley Cumberland); Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge - £510,232
Ben Nicholson: 1974 (Moonrise), Pallant House Gallery, Chichester £131,400
Edgar Degas: Danseuses roses, National Gallery, London - £7,891,241
Domenico Fetti: A Bacchanal, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford -£420,000
Sir John Lavery: Portrait of Lady Minnie Elisabeth Maryon-Wilson, Charlton House, London - £36,500
Pompeo Batoni: Portrait of Mrs. Martha Swinburne, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne - £144,450
Aert van der Neer: Winter Landscape, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge - £1,460,000
A still life by Roelandt Savery To be confirmed - £438,000
Three paintings by John Wootton, National Horseracing Museum, Newmarket - £504,814
Sir John Lavery: The House of Lords in Session, National Museums Northern - £388,000
Guercino: King David, National Gallery, London - £5,600,000
John Deare: Queen Eleanor sucking poison from the wound of King Edward, Victoria & Albert Museum, London - £1,120,000
Sir Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Joanna Leigh, National Trust for Waddesdon Manor - £17,500,000
Picture: artscouncil.org.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The UK's Cultural Gifts Scheme & Acceptance in Lieu Report 2025 has been published online. It appears that 2025 was a bumper year with £59.7m of objects accepted/gifted, with £39.3m of tax settled. This is the second highest year over the past decade, it seems.
Here is a selection of the major works of art, which are of interest to this blog, that were accepted in lieu of tax (with their values and new homes) in 2025:
Sir Godfrey Kneller: The Crucifixion, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge - £37,750
Isaac Ouwater: Amsterdam, A View of the Muntoren, Historic England for Kenwood, London - £109,500
Allan Ramsay: Portrait of a Lady, National Trust for Scotland for the Georgian House, Edinburgh - £13,140
Ben Nicholson: 1929 (Kingwater Valley Cumberland); Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge - £510,232
Ben Nicholson: 1974 (Moonrise), Pallant House Gallery, Chichester £131,400
Edgar Degas: Danseuses roses, National Gallery, London - £7,891,241
Domenico Fetti: A Bacchanal, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford -£420,000
Sir John Lavery: Portrait of Lady Minnie Elisabeth Maryon-Wilson, Charlton House, London - £36,500
Pompeo Batoni: Portrait of Mrs. Martha Swinburne, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne - £144,450
Aert van der Neer: Winter Landscape, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge - £1,460,000
A still life by Roelandt Savery To be confirmed - £438,000
Three paintings by John Wootton, National Horseracing Museum, Newmarket - £504,814
Sir John Lavery: The House of Lords in Session, National Museums Northern - £388,000
Guercino: King David, National Gallery, London - £5,600,000
John Deare: Queen Eleanor sucking poison from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London £1,120,000
Sir Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Joanna Leigh, National Trust for Waddesdon Manor - £17,500,000
