Charitable work – art Between 1998 and 2002, Townsley was a member of the International Council of the Tate Gallery, which holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and also international modern and contemporary art. He was appointed a Trustee of the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1987, and since 1993 has served as its vice-chairman. The Serpentine Gallery was opened in May 1970 in a former tea pavilion to allow the work of emerging artists, particularly from the UK and its regions, to be exhibited. He also served as a board member of the National Gallery East Wing Development Project between 2002 and 2005. Art sales Townsley is a collector of art. On 14 May 2014, he sold Andy Warhol's Six Self Portraits, 1986 lot 23 for $30,125,000. The works depict a suite of rainbow-hued images of the artist's gaunt face and were acquired in 1986 from the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London at Warhol's acclaimed Self-Portrait exhibition. Townsley purchased the works before the exhibition opened. See also Wolfson family References Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 1946 births Living people British businesspeople Labour Party (UK) people