Borough’s artwork to be preserved in photos

ALL publicly owned oil paintings in the Larne Borough Council are to be photographed as part of a nation-wide initiative.
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Feb 2012, 23:00 BST

The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) has been photographing oil paintings held in institutions such as town hall across the UK for a project called Your Paintings.

The aim is to keep a record of artwork that can then be utilised by researchers, students and other people in years to come.

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PCF is now over halfway through its project and has so far photographed 110,000 paintings from over 1,500 collections, including Carrickfergus, Ballymena and Newtownabbey Councils.

Larne Council has now compiled a list of works held in its buildings, which include portraits of Sir Thomas Dixon and Lady Dixon, Sir Hugh Smiley and Lady Smiley, a painting of Larne Promenade, a painting of the Kilcoan steamship, and several others.