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ARTS / THE VISUAL ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
List: Top Ten Greatest Paintings in Britain
Date: September 2005
Source: BBC Radio 4's Today programme
Base: Listener's to the programme wishing to vote were presented a short-list of 10 Paintings pre-selected by 'experts' - No data on numbers voting.
Notes: The painter did not have to be British, only that the painting was held in the UK. The poll was criticised for the conservatism of the 'experts' selection.
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Painting
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Artist
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Location
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The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken
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J.M.W. Turner
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National Gallery
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The Hay Wain
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John Constable
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National Gallery
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
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Édouard Manet
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Courtauld Institute Gallery
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The Arnolfini Portrait
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Jan van Eyck
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National
Gallery
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Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970-1
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David
Hockney
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Tate Britain
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Still
Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
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Vincent
van Gogh
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National
Gallery
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The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch
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Sir Henry Raeburn
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National Gallery of Scotland
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The Last of England
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Ford Madox Brown
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Fitzwilliam Museum
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The Baptism of Christ
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Piero della Francesca
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National
Gallery
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A Rake's
Progress III: 'The Orgy'
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William
Hogarth
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Sir John Soane's Museum
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