Art lovers can now view The Hunterian’s entire painting collection online for the very first time via a new BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/yourpaintings

Almost 900 works from The Hunterian's world class collection are featured, including Old Masters such as Rembrandt, Chardin, and Stubbs, Scottish art, especially the Glasgow Boys and Scottish Colourists and works by Whistler and Mackintosh.

Your Paintings is a partnership project between the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation which aims to put every oil painting in the UK’s public collections online.

Hunterian staff have been working with The Public Catalogue Foundation for almost a year, putting together images and information about the paintings in the Hunterian Art Gallery, The Hunterian stores and around the University of Glasgow campus.

So far, the site features 145,000 paintings from over 1,700 UK collections, including the national collections, the Royal Academy, the National Trust and the Society of Antiquaries.

Your Paintings is a unique learning resource, showing not only photographs and information about each painting but also selected BBC TV archive footage and links to further information.

Mungo Campell, Deputy Director of The Hunterian said:

'The Hunterian collection includes some of Scotland's favourite paintings - from Chardin's monumental 'Lady Taking Tea' and Stubb's 'The Duke of Richmond's Bull Moose', to Whistler's beautiful 'Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge' and Fergusson's ground-breaking 'Les Eus'. Through Your Paintings, more people than ever before will be able to learn about our extraordinary collections. We hope that they will be inspired to visit these treasures and enjoy all that our displays have to offer.'

The Public Catalogue Foundation, a registered charity, was launched in 2003 by Dr Fred Hohler, and is funded principally by grants and donations.

First published: 26 June 2012

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