Greatest Painting in Britain Vote
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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 has been 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.
[edit] 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
