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The National Portrait Gallery is facing backlash after wrongly claiming that an art dealer built his career using money from slavery.

Donald Gajadhar, the great-great-grandson of art dealer Edward Fox White, spotted the slur when he visited the gallery last summer. 

In the caption, placed next to a portrait of Mr White, the gallery claimed that a payout he received for freeing slaves was used to 'establish and sustain' his career.

However, his relative says 'the claim simply isn't true' and has asked for a public retraction and an apology following the smear.

Mr Gajadhar told The Telegraph: 'They had no evidence that his (Mr White's) father-in-law, Moses Gomes Silva, gave him any money from his slave compensation.

He added: 'It seems to me that it was put there to tick some boxes, but that's not right, they should have done their due diligence.'