Greatest Painting in Britain Vote

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The Fighting Temeraire by Turner, first place
The Fighting Temeraire by Turner, first place
The Hay Wain by Constable, second place
The Hay Wain by Constable, second place
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Manet, third place
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Manet, third place

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

  1. The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up by J.M.W. Turner
      National Gallery, London
  2. The Hay Wain by John Constable
      National Gallery
  3. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
      Courtauld Institute Gallery, London
  4. The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck
      National Gallery
  5. Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970-1 by David Hockney
      Tate Britain, London
  6. Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh
      National Gallery
  7. The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Sir Henry Raeburn
      National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
  8. The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown
      Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
  9. The Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca
      National Gallery
  10. A Rake's Progress III: 'The Orgy' by William Hogarth
      Sir John Soane's Museum, London

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