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Alumnus bequeaths Old Masters to University of Sydney

A generous donor has donated $500,000 and bequeathed an additional $5 million and a collection of Dutch Old Masters.

4 Dec 2013 12:00

Richard Watts

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Kenneth Reed. Image courtesy the University of Sydney.

The funds and paintings, from Australian arts patron and retired lawyer Kenneth Reed – a University of Sydney alumnus who has collected European art for the past 25 years – will be given to the University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the University Art Gallery, established like the University itself, in 1850.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts