Sink Or Swim At The National

Charles Saumarez Smith didn’t get much of a honeymoon as the new director of the UK’s National Gallery. Faced from the outset with questions about his qualifications, and basic sniping over whether he might be ‘too nice’ for the job, Smith is now staring down the barrel of a public relations cannon. His mission: to persuade the Heritage Fund to pony up a sizable chunk of the £29 million he needs to raise to keep a famed Raphael on the gallery’s walls.