Interesting Fact - Art
According to a Freedom of Information request from the Evening Standard newspaper a committee of British MPs has spent around £250,000 since 1995 commissioning portraits and statues of other MPs.
(Now no one would really begrudge Sir Winston a statue or two, and even a prime minister like Mrs T should have her photo taken for the wall of infamy, but pictures and statues have also been commissioned for junior ministers and backbenchers.
Frank Doran, Labour MP and chairman of the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art said,
"We've been collecting art in the House of Commons, and Parliament generally, since the 14th century. We're preserving the history of Parliament through art. We're also doing a number of other things as part of that process: one is supporting young artists.")
(Now no one would really begrudge Sir Winston a statue or two, and even a prime minister like Mrs T should have her photo taken for the wall of infamy, but pictures and statues have also been commissioned for junior ministers and backbenchers.
Frank Doran, Labour MP and chairman of the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art said,
"We've been collecting art in the House of Commons, and Parliament generally, since the 14th century. We're preserving the history of Parliament through art. We're also doing a number of other things as part of that process: one is supporting young artists.")
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