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Government Art Collection

Government Art Collection

Government Art Collection

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With over 14,000 works of art spanning five centuries, the Government Art Collection is the largest most dispersed collection of British art in the world. Two thirds of the Collection is on display in British Government buildings in nearly every capital city around the world. Dating from 1898, the Collection helps promote British art and history while contributing to cultural diplomacy.

Queen's Yard, 179A Tottenham Court Road, London, Greater London W1T 7PA England

gac@culture.gov.uk

020 7211 2425

The premises of the Government Art Collection are in London. These are not normally open to visitors, however, free evening tours for established groups take place three times a month. Approximately one third of the Collection is on site at any time – the other two-thirds is displayed in British Government buildings in the UK and abroad. See website for booking details of tours, other public events and for more information about the works of art in the Collection.

https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/

Artworks

  • Bride of the Sea
    Bride of the Sea Eileen Agar (1899–1991)
    Government Art Collection
  • Alton Peters
    Alton Peters Craigie Ronald John Aitchison (1926–2009)
    Government Art Collection
  • Bird Garden with Intestinal Self Portrait
    Bird Garden with Intestinal Self Portrait Samira Abbassy (b.1965)
    Government Art Collection
  • In the Cellar Mirror
    In the Cellar Mirror Norman Charles Blamey (1914–2000)
    Government Art Collection
  • Abstract
    Abstract Sandra Blow (1925–2006)
    Government Art Collection
  • Abstract
    Abstract Sandra Blow (1925–2006)
    Government Art Collection
  • Hedgerow
    Hedgerow Elinor Bellingham-Smith (1906–1988)
    Government Art Collection
  • 2,987 more

Artists

  • Mr and Mrs Andrews
    Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
  • Landscape with Cattle and Goats
    Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807)
  • Self Portrait
    John David Ferguson (b.1932)
  • 'Casus belli': Scene from Walter Scott's 'Peveril of the Peak'
    William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910)
  • A Hind's Daughter
    James Guthrie (1859–1930)
  • Beezerspline (Counter Attack Version)
    Phillip Macdonell Allen (b.1967)
  • After Lunch
    Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
  • Approaching Storm, Dover, Kent
    Théodore Casimir Roussel (1847–1926)
  • Brown's (Mr J. R. Brown)
    Mark Wallinger (b.1959)
  • Huka Falls, North Island, New Zealand
    Charles Blomfield (1848–1926)

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