Charitable Works
Robert Sainsbury was as an art collector and benefactor who gave his collection to the University of East Anglia, and was awarded a knighthood in 1969 for services to the arts.
Robert Sainsbury in 1973 made a gift to the University of East Anglia of several hundred paintings, drawings and sculptures from around the world, which he had bought over the decades.
Designed by Norman Foster, a talented British architect, and with an endowment of £3m from his son, David, to house the works, the awe-inspiring Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts opened in spring 1978.
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| Name | Sainsbury, Robert |
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| Short description | British businessman |
| Date of birth | 24 October 1906 |
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| Date of death | 2 April 2000 |
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