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Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

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• Hard Cover | 978-1-904931-36-2 | £25 | Add Hard Cover to basket

Catalogue Publication Date: November 2009

Extent: This catalogue contains some 2,500 full colour images within 442 pages.

Description:

This fully-illustrated catalogue brings together some 2,500 paintings in public ownership from almost 100 collections across the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. It includes striking paintings rarely seen by the public, tucked away in Town Halls and Hospitals, Schools, Museums and their stores across these three historic counties. Lovers of art or history will be fascinated by the rich variety of beautiful and informative paintings, both modern and old, to be found in this volume; from portraits by Lely, Lawrence and de László to works by Stanley Spencer from his former home at Cookham.

Collections included:

BERKSHIRE:  Arborfield:  The REME Museum of Technology; Cookham:  Stanley Spencer Gallery; Maidenhead:  Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Civic Collection; Newbury:  Newbury Town Hall; West Berkshire Museum; Reading:  Kendrick School; Museum of English Rural Life; Reading Museum Service; Thames Valley Police Museum; The Museum of Berkshire Aviation; The Reading Pathological Society; The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; University of Reading Art Collection; Slough:  Slough Grammar School; Slough Museum; Thatcham:  West Berkshire Community Hospital; Windsor:  Berkshire Yeomanry Museum; Windsor & Royal Borough Museum; Wokingham:  Wokingham Town Hall; BUCKINGHAMSHIRE:  Aylesbury:  Buckinghamshire County Council; Buckinghamshire County Museum; Stoke Mandeville Hospital; Buckingham:  Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust; Old Gaol Museum; Chalfont St Giles:  Milton's Cottage;  Chesham:  Chesham Museum, The Stables; Haddenham:  Haddenham Museum; Haddenham Social Centre; High Wycombe:  RAF Headquarters Air Command; Wycombe District Council; Wycombe High School; Wycombe Museum; Wycombe Swan Theatre; Milton Keynes:  Bletchley Park Trust; Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre; Milton Keynes Civic Collection; Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust; Milton Keynes Theatre & Gallery Company; Moorland First School; Open University; Newport Pagnell:  Newport Pagnell Historical Society Museum; Olney:  The Cowper and Newton Museum; Stoke Poges:  Penn Gray Museum; Wendover:  RAF Halton; The Chequers Trust; OXFORDSHIRE:  Abingdon:  Abingdon Town Council: The Guildhall; Christ’s Hospital of Abingdon; John Mason School; Larkmead School; Banbury:  Banbury School; Banbury Town Council; Cherwell District Council; Oxford & Cherwell Valley College; Oxfordshire Yeomanry Trust; Bicester:  Bicester Town Council; Middleton Stoney Parish Council; Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum; Burford:  Tolsey Museum; Carterton:  Edith Moorhouse Primary School; Charlbury:  Charlbury Museum; Chipping Norton:  Chipping Norton Museum of Local History; Chipping Norton Town Council; Didcot:  Didcot Town Council; Lydalls Nursery School; East Hendred:  Champs Chapel Museum; Faringdon:  Faringdon Library; Faringdon Town Council; Henley-on-Thames:  Henley Town Council, River & Rowing Museum; Thames Valley Police (Oxfordshire Basic Command Unit); Hook Norton:  Hook Norton Brewery Museum; Hook Norton Village Museum; Oxford:  Headington Library; Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust; Oxford Brookes University; Oxford City Council; Oxford Radcliffe NHS Hospitals Trust: Churchill Hospital, Horton General Hospital, Banbury, John Radcliffe Hospital; Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxfordshire County Council; Shrivenham:  Defence Academy of the United Kingdom; Uffington:  Tom Brown’s School Museum; Wallingford:  RAF Benson; Wallingford Museum; Wallingford Town Council; Wantage:  Wantage Town Council; Watlington:  Watlington Library; Wheatley:  Wheatley Primary School; Witney:  Henry Box School; Witney & District Museum; Woodstock:  Oxfordshire County Museums Service:  Abingdon County Hall Museum, Banbury Museum, Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Museum of Oxford, Oxfordshire Museums Resource Centre, The Oxfordshire Museum, Vale & Downland Museum; Woodstock Town Council.

Principal Sponsors:

Mr & Mrs A. Mittal; The Radcliffe Trust; Stavros Niarchos Foundation; The Lord & Lady Phillimore; Rothschild Foundation; Hugh & Catherine Stevenson; The Astor Foundation; Harriett Cullen; Marc Fitch Fund; The Prince Philip Trust Fund for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead; The Sammermar Trust; Mr & Mrs Jo Windsor; Sir Philip Wroughton; Chiltern Decorative and Fine Arts Society; Englefield Charitable Trust; Elizabeth & David Guinness; Hamish Mackie Sculpture Ltd; Peter & Leonie Thorogood, John Tylor; Major J. A. White; The Bulldog Trust; The John S. Cohen Foundation; Covent Garden London; Fidelity Foundation; Marc Fitch Fund; The Peter Harrison Foundation; R. K. Harrison; Hiscox plc; The Monument Trust; National Gallery Trust; Stavros Niarchos Foundation; P. F. Charitable Trust; The Pilgrim Trust; The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation; Garfield Weston Foundation; Christie’s