Thirty-one paintings owned by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) can now be viewed online by the public, as their photographs have been added to the ‘Your Paintings’ national website.
The majority of the RCVS collection features past Presidents and Secretaries of the College, including the first President, Thomas Turner, and George Fleming, who financed the 1881 Veterinary Surgeons Act. These paintings can now more easily be seen by veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses (VNs), as well as the wider public.
Members of the public are asked to help catalogue the ‘Your Paintings’ collection by ‘tagging’ the photographs on the website to add information on the subjects featured, and to submit information about the pictures in the collection.
There are 211,861 pictures on the ‘Your Paintings’ website, which is an initiative of the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) and the BBC. The project was launched in June 2011, and includes paintings held in institutions ranging from traditional galleries to universities, local councils and even the Zoological Society of London.
You can find the pictures of the paintings belonging to the Royal College on the BBC website.