Your Paintings
The extent of this collection was revealed by Your Paintings, a joint initiative between the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation (a registered charity) and participating collections and museums from across the UK. Your Paintings, which launched in 2011, aimed to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. [1]
Oil paintings
The initial collection, which was rebranded under Art UK, is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country, including 738 paintings housed in 28 locations in Jersey. Only oil paintings were initially included in the project, so the much larger quantity of watercolours housed in public collections does not feature. This, unfortunately, excludes the works of watercolourist and lithographer Jean Le Capelain, one of Jersey's most accomplished 19th century artists.
This section of Jerripedia includes a large number of the works featured in Your Paintings as well as some not covered by the project. This page includes a representative gallery of works to be found in a variety of locations, as well as links to the individual collections. The locations were correct in 2012, but some paintings may have been moved since then.
The majority of the works included are in the Jersey Heritage Trust collection, which has brought together works previously owned by the States of Jersey and La Société Jersiaise. The majority are by Jersey artists and feature Jersey subjects, but there are Jersey portraits and landscapes by non-islanders and some works which have no connection with the island other than being in local ownership. A popular theme is paintings of Jersey-owned and built ships depicted arriving at ports throughout the world.
Locations
In addition to the 738 paintings in 28 locations, Your Paintings also features 446 works by the prolific artist Sir Francis Foot, who moved to Jersey in 1848 at the age of 41, lived in the island for 30 years and left his gallery and a collection of over 1,200 of his paintings to the public of the island after his death.
Barreau Le Maistre art gallery, works at Jersey Museum
Royal Court and States Building art collection
Mont Orgueil Castle
National Trust for Jersey, the Elms and 16 New Street
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Sculptures
A project to add scupltures to the Art UK collection started in 2017 and now includes more than 170 on public view in Jersey.
We have created a new page - Sculptures on public display in Jersey which includes the majority of those listed by Art UK
Gallery
This is just a small selection of works of art on public display in Jersey. Full galleries for each location can be found by following the above links. Click on any image to see a full-size version
Anthony Paulet, 1597; Marcus Gheeraerts; Mont Orgueil Castle
Blacksmith, 1900; John St Helier Lander; Jersey Museum and Art Gallery
Boyhood of Raleigh, 1934; Charles Emile Jacque (after Millais); Town Hall
Cows under a stormy sky, 2005; Rozan Henning; RJA&HS
David with Goliath's Head; W W Ouless; Victoria College
Departure of Queen Victoria, 1846; P J Ouless; Government House
Drunkard's Wife, 1860; John Arg; Town Hall
1980s Bailiff Sir Frank Ereaut; Carlos Luis Sancha; Royal Court
George III, 1796; Philippe Jean; Royal Court
Jersey farmstead, 1936; Francis William Synge Le Maistre; Royal Court
King George V; John St Helier Lander; Victoria College
La Repasseuse; unknown artist; Town Hall
Sculptures
Mont Orgueil Castle
Gorey
Jardin de la Mer
Liberation Square
Notes and references
- ↑ 2019 note: The BBC's Your Paintings pages were archived and are now inaccessible as a portal to the collection, but a new website now contains the whole British collection. Jerripedia uploaded all the Jersey works when the initiative was launched
