Sir, We would like to add our names to the campaign to save Titian’s Diana & Actaeon and Diana & Callisto for the nation. We applaud the partnership formed by the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery in London in an effort to acquire the two pictures and ensure that the rest of the Bridgewater Collection remains on loan in Scotland for the next 21 years.

The paintings, which are among the finest works in private hands in the world, have been in Britain for more than two centuries and on continuous public view at the National Gallery of Scotland since the collection was placed there in 1945, inspiring generations of visitors. The high reputation being enjoyed currently by British art, both at home and abroad, depends on the extraordinary quality and depth of our national collections, which have always been, and remain, a constant stimulus to contemporary artists working across a whole variety of creative disciplines.

Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Tom Phillips, Michael Craig-Martin, Fiona Rae, Cornelia Parker, Jeremy Deller, Leon Kossoff, Bridget Riley, Ron Mueck, Tracey Emin, Maggie Hambling, Frank Auerbach, Shirazeh Houshiary, Richard Hamilton, Richard Wentworth, Paula Rego, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Allen Jones, Bill Woodrow, Howard Hodgkin, Peter Blake, Ana Maria Pacheco, Carol Rhodes, Nathan Coley, Richard Wright, Ian Mckenzie-Smith, Charles Avery, Ian Howard, Bill Scott, Stephen Conroy, Will Maclean, Douglas Gordon, Moyna Flannigan, Stephanie Smith and Edward Stewart, Alan Johnston, John Lowrie Morrison, Callum Innes, Donald Urquhart, Chad McCail, Wendy McMurdo, Alex Pollard, Alison Watt, Jim Lambie, Sandy Moffat, Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion, David Michie, Graeme Todd, Calum Colvin, Ken Currie, Richard Demarco, Arthur Watson, Sandy Stoddart, Damien Hirst, Brian Clarke, Victoria Crowe, Mark Wallinger, Anthony Caro

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