Oil paintings in public ownership in London

By Heather Ann Bennett, Justin Piperger

Subjects: Museums, British Painting, European Painting, Ölmalerei, Painting, Catalogs

Description: This volume brings together over 2,300 oil paintings from 32 collections across the South East of London including those in the boroughs of Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark, Greenwich and Bromley. The largest collection is that of the Dulwich Picture Gallery which houses one of the world's most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. Also included are the Horniman Museum and Gardens, the Southwark Art Collection, Bromley Museum Service and Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre.--http://www.thepcf.org.uk.