Dame Janet Frances de Botton, (

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) is a British art collector and philanthropist. Janet de Botton is the eldest daughter of Lord Wolfson and his wife, Ruth (née Sterling), who married in 1949, and a granddaughter of Sir Isaac Wolfson, founder of the Great Universal Stores family; she is the former wife of the broadcasting executive Michael Green. Her late husband, Swiss financier

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, sold

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for £234m in 1999. In June 2010, the Wolfson Foundation announced the appointment of de Botton as the new Chairman following a unanimous decision by the Trustees. De Botton has been a Trustee of Tate and Chairman of the Council of

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. In 2007, she appeared at number 22 (down from number 18, in 2006) in the ''

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'', with an estimated personal fortune of £285 million. She is a prominent collector of modern art."Gilbert de Botton"
''The Telegraph'', obituaries, 30 August 2000; accessed 17 March 2014. In 1996, she presented 60 works of art to the Tate, including examples by Carl Andre,

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, Richard Long, Cindy Sherman,

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, Gary Hume, Nancy Spero,

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and Bill Woodrow. She was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in

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and elevated to

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(DBE) in the

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for charitable services to the arts. According to the ''

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Giving List'' in 2020'','' de Botton gave £65.1 million to charitable causes in 2019.

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