Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Location/United Kingdom

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This is the (very incomplete and still unstructured) overview of museums with paintings in the United Kingdom part of WikiProject sum of all paintings. This list might be split up later. To work on:

Also see Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland/paintings.

collection (P195) Location Number of paintings Status Lists


National Gallery (Q180788) List London 2500 Online, but ©, does have some sort of API. Possible to get info by inventory number, all paintings and a single painting. Done indexing. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


National Portrait Gallery (Q238587) List London 3100 Online, done indexing. Just 77 paintings missing all seem to be from the reference collection (list). Could do that at some later point. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Tate (Q430682) List London Metadata available under CC0 in easy format. This includes all the Tate parts (gallery, Britain, Modern, etc). All the works that start with inventory number "N..." used to be in the National Gallery and the numbers seem to fill the gaps. Need to figure that out and get it confirmed. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


British Museum (Q6373) London 200-600k Almost 600k objects of type "visual representation" at http://collection.britishmuseum.org/sparql with query: 
select * {?x crm:P2_has_type/skos:broader/rdfs:label "visual representation"}

This is too broad: includes photographs, medals, plaquettes. Which narrower terms to select? 

select * {?x skos:broader/rdfs:label "visual representation"; skos:prefLabel ?label}

Advanced search for "object type: oil painting" produces 200 results, via the newly relaunched collections website

Broader search for painting gives 12.000 results which includes a lot of Asian art. Need some people willing to sort this out before doing such a large import.

LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Dulwich Picture Gallery (Q1241163) List London 600+ Indexed the website. Has some interesting encoding issues and some paintings seem to be missing. Have to check this list for missing paintings LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


National Galleries of Scotland (Q2051997) List Edinburgh 3700 One collection for Scottish National Gallery (Q942713), Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Q2441562) and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Q1889944). Looks like they have about 3700 artworks. Cleaned up existing artworks and done indexing. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Royal Academy of Arts (Q270920) London Royal Academy scans are CC by NC, but potentially metadata is more open LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


National Library of Wales (Q666063) (Please add list) Aberystwyth about 20,000 National Library of Wales has already released thousands of Artworks to Wiki commons as CC-0 with more planned releases soon. It houses the Welsh Landscape Collection, Welsh Portrait Archives and a large Framed Works collection. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Royal Collection (Q1459037) List All over the UK 5500-7000 Wikipedia article says 7000 paintings, website returns 5500. website uses json so shouldn't be too hard to retrieve the data. Cleaned up, indexed the paintings. Total now at around 5450, so some missing. Search might return less or duplicate inventory numbers. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Q1061094) List Glasgow 1000s Largest museum in Glasgow, and most of the collection is managed by the GMRC (list is a redirect) LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (Q41661713) List Glasgow area (multiple locations) 1000s Museum in Glasgow (by appointment? more info here), and manages all locations and depots of artworks in Glasgow LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery (Q1465387) Glasgow 100s unclear. There's a very rudimentary search site LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


York Art Gallery (Q8055361) York 15145 Online collection search. All PD works available, quality varies. Former part of a GLAMwiki project. Commons Category LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Ulster Museum (Q3547979) Belfast 1210 Online collection search LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Victoria and Albert Museum (Q213322) (Please add list) London Online collection search LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Fitzwilliam Museum (Q1421440) List Cambridge 1647 Done indexing LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Royal Museums Greenwich (Q7374509) List Greenwich 3779 Oil paintings are all indexed. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Ashmolean Museum (Q636400) List Oxford Eastern part seems to be imported. Legacy website has 1571 paintings, probably best to wait for the new [https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online vollection online LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


National Trust (Q333515) List Multiple 12472 Cleaned up, ✓ Done indexing. Some leftover locations not matched yet. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


Birmingham Museums (Q4916759) List Birmingham https://pro.europeana.eu/post/museums-in-the-digital-age-opening-up-at-birmingham-museums-trust paintings on their website (unclear if this is complete). Also in Art UK and CC0 images.

Cleaned up the existing images. Currently importing from their website. Their website doesn't contain all works, just the ones that are in the public domain. Have to add the images from a different source, but first have to figure out how to get the high resolution ones. Might need to fill the gaps from Art UK.

LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


The Wallace Collection (Q1327919) List London 769 Emuseum website so unable to parse it. LList*Query*No inv num*No creator*No datecrotos changes


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