OIL paintings from the collection at Warrington Museum are among more than 1,000 pictures that have gone online for the first time.
All oil paintings in public ownership in Cheshire have been placed on the Your Paintings website – www.bbc.co.uk/yourpaintings.
Your Paintings is an ongoing project that aims to eventually put all publicly owned oil paintings on show in a complete online catalogue of all the national paintings.
About 1,100 paintings from Cheshire have gone on show, including works by Dobson, Fuseli, John Martin, Lely, Lawrence, Reynolds and Turner.
Major collections such as those at Warrington Museum are Art Gallery, Grosvenor Museum and Tabley House are featured alongside smaller collections including Halton Borough Council, the National Waterways Museum and the University of Chester.
Together the paintings provide a unique insight into the history and artistic heritage of Cheshire.
To help identify and catalogue what can be seen in each painting, the public is
being invited to “tag” the nation’s paintings.
Tagging is fun, easy and the results will allow future users of the Your Paintings website to find paintings of subjects that interest them. Your Paintings Tagger is at http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk
Craig Sherwood, documentation access officer, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, said: “Warrington Museum and Art Gallery aims to make its collections as accessible as possible but even though we regularly rotate the works on show, some items are still only displayed infrequently.”
OIL paintings from the collection at Warrington Museum are among more
than 1,000 pictures that have gone online for the first time.
Town's oil paintings go online
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Well done Warrington Museum (and of course the BBC ) and there are some great old paintings on there especially the ones showing Warrington as it was many years ago. Lovely to be able to see them all especially alongside others of Cheshire and elsewhere too all accessible on one central place. Can you a similar thing with your huge collection of old photo’s next please 😉
Sorry I forgot to ask but I don’t really get what it means when it says tagging them and when I click of the tag link ot just says ‘doesn’t exist’….
I have to agree with Dizzy and ask that the huge photo collection is scanned and made available as soon as possible!!
Really? I’m glad you find it interesting too and that you are inspired. Keep seeking and one day you may ‘find’ ……….. Over to you Gary 😉