Greatest Painting in Britain Vote
- Greatest Painting in Britain Vote
The Greatest Painting in Britain Vote was a survey made by BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme in Summer 2005 with the aim of discovering the best-loved painting in Britain, in the manner of 100 Greatest Britons and The Big Read. It was criticised for the conservatism of the final selection as well as the unsuitability of the idea for the non-visual medium of radio.
The winner, voted for by the public from a shortlist of 10, was announced on air on 5 September 2005.
The Top Ten
# "The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up " by J. M. W. Turner
#: National Gallery, London
# "The Hay Wain" by John Constable
#: National Gallery
# "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" by Édouard Manet
#: Courtauld Institute Gallery, London
# "The Arnolfini Portrait" by Jan van Eyck
#: National Gallery
# "Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970–1" by David Hockney
#: Tate Britain, London
# "Sunflowers" by Vincent van Gogh
#: National Gallery
# "The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch" by Sir Henry Raeburn
#: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
# "The Last of England" by Ford Madox Brown
#: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
# "The Baptism of Christ" by Piero della Francesca
#: National Gallery
# "A Rake's Progress III: 'The Orgy"' by William Hogarth
#: Sir John Soane's Museum, London
External links
* [http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2005/08/the_today_progr.php Weblog entry with digest of media responses to the poll]
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