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Over half of the nation's collection now online

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Sara Hughes|15:17 UK time, Sunday, 11 December 2011

We're halfway there! Your Paintings now has almost 104,000 paintings on the site – so only about another 100,000 to go before you can see every oil painting in public ownership in the UK.

We've added paintings in public ownership from across the country, including Northumberland, Tees Valley and Tyne and Wear, many of which are online for the first time. 

These paintings are some of the highlights from the 35 collections we’ve added:

Dr James Beattie (1735–1803)

Dr James Beattie (1735–1803)
(Joshua Reynolds, Collection: The University of Aberdeen)

Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino

Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino
(Peter Paul Rubens, Collection: National Trust, Kingston Lacy, Dorset)

The Morley College Mural

The Morley College Mural
(Bridget Riley, Collection: Morley College, London. © the artist)

The Last of England

The Last of England
(Ford Madox Brown, Collection: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)

Jockeys before the Race

Jockeys before the Race
(Edgar Degas, Collection: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham)

You can browse the rest of the new additions or search your region’s collections.

Don’t forget you can help the BBC and Public Catalogue Foundation identify and catalogue what is in each painting. Tagging is easy and fun and you don’t need to be an art expert to do it. The results will allow future users of the Your Paintings website to find paintings of subjects that interest them.

You can now find out the latest from @Your_Paintings on twitter.

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