Public Catalogue Foundation
The Public Catalogue Foundation, a registered charity, is working on a project to record the UK's complete collection of oil paintings in public ownership and to make this accessible to the public through a series of affordable catalogues and, at a later stage, free Internet access.
The catalogues and resulting website will allow readers to see a colour illustration and description of every painting in the UK's national collection. This information has significant educational benefits and constitutes the building blocks for later art historical research. Revenue from catalogue sales made by collections will be dedicated to the conservation and restoration of oil paintings in their care.
In January 2009 a partnership with the BBC was announced with the aim to place the entire catalogue of publicly owned oil paintings online by 2012. On 4 October 2012 it was announced that the project had indeed photographed every painting that it intended to and all 220,000 would shortly be available.
Read more about Public Catalogue Foundation: Catalogue Series, Your Paintings, Publications, Board of Trustees
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