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Government Art Collection

Answer

[holding answer 23 March 2010]: There are more than 13,500 works of art in the Government Art Collection's (GAC) holdings, on display in over 400 different buildings in the UK and around the world. The GAC carries out audits remotely and in person and some works are occasionally reported as missing from their previously reported locations. The GAC make extensive searches, after which time, many of the items are accounted for.This table details those Government Art Collection prints and paintings which have been reported as missing since 1997 and not yet recovered:

Year went missing	Work/artist	Value (£)
1997	Sacred Place 20/50 by M. Ayrton	50
1997	NW Prospect of Gloucester by S. & N. Buck	500
1997	E Prospect of Burton on Trent	500
1997	Sheep at Dusk near New Tredegar by C. Molyneux	25
1998	Charles Abbott 1st Baron Tenterdon by W. Owen	250
1998	Alex Wedderburn 1st Earl Rosslyn by J. Reynolds	50
1999	The Tate Gallery by J. Griffiths	50
2000	Poppies with Sunflowers by M. Thompson	50
2000	How to make 16 Squares out of Forty Rods by M. Porter	50
2000	Jesus College, Cambridge by J. Trevelyan	50
2000	The Deer House, Bishop Auckland, County Durham by J. Thirsk	30
2000	View of Walton Bridge from Oatlands by Farington	75
2000	Fawley Court and Henley by Farington	75
2000	NW Prospect of City of Bristol by S. and N. Buck	500
2000	Jesus College, Cambridge by J. Trevelyan	50
2001	Exhibition Room, Somerset House by Rowlandson	100
2001	The Mosque of Sultan Achmet by anonymous	100
2001	Syon House by A. Bury	50
2001	On London Bridge by Edwin La Dell	50
2001	Offering to Jupiter by M. Rocca	80,000
2001	Lake Landscape by G. Arnald	35,000
2001	Landscape by E. Williams	60,000
2001	St. James's Park and Banqueting House by A. Highmore	60,000
2001	Sir Woodbine's Parish by T. Phillips	5,000
2001	The Cathedral of St. Magnus, Kirkwall, Orkney by W. Daniell	20
2002	Boys and Girls in Boats, Windsor by L. Rosoman	30
2002	Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman by W. Strang	100
2002	Regent Street looking towards the Quadrant by T. S. Boys	100
2002	Westminster Abbey, West Front by T. H. Shepherd	30
2002	Richmond Castle, Evening by D. Muirhead	30
2002	St. Paul's 15/75 by J. Trevelyan	100
2002	Shadwell Park 4/75 by J. Piper	300
2003	The Rose Garden, British Embassy, Washington by E. Croner	100
2003	The New Law Courts, Main portion of Strand Facade by G. E. Street	50
2003	The New Law Courts, Portion of the West Front by G. E. Street	50
2003	Stepping Stones by T. Gilman	2,200
2003	Paradox No. IV 15/25 by D. Hirst	25
2004	Blackfriars from Southwark Bridge by T. Shotters Boys	100
2005	Gondola III 39/100 by M. Krosh-Frishman	50
2005	3ra Day of Creation A/P by E. Sharf	50
2005	Hall of Christ Church Hospital by T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin	75
2006	Penman-Mauer taken from near Aber, North Wales by W. Daniell	20
2007	The New Foreign and India Offices: The Park Front by M. Jackson	50
2007	The Grand Staircase at the New Foreign Office by anonymous	50
2007	Boats A/P by R. Jarvis	100
2007	Horse Guards from the Old Entrance, Scotland Yard by M. A. Rooker	500
2008	Monument to Balance 4,30 by Ernest A. Dunn	100
2008	The Wording of Police Charges 37/150 by R. B. Kitaj	500
2008	Plague 37/150 by R. B. Kitaj	500
2009	The Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Chichester by L. Knyff	250
2009	Bambridge on Trial for Murder by Committee of House of Commons by W. Hogarth	200
2009	The Railway Station by W. P. Frith	600
2009	Derby Day by W. P. Frith	600
2009	Leaving by D. Evans	500
2009	House Plant 2/25 by Boyd and Evans	500
2009	Evening Menu 31/70 by P. Caulfield	1,600
2009	Untitled by P. Collingwood	3,000

This table details Government Art Collection prints and paintings which were reported missing but subsequently recovered:

Year went missing	Work/artist	Value £
2001	Dung Gate, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2001	Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2001	Zion Gate, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2001	St. Stephen's Gate, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2001	Damascus Gate, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2001	Herod's Gate, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2001	Golden Gate, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2001	The Citadel, Jerusalem by H. G. Gray	1,000
2003	The Mansion House looking towards Cheapside by T. Malton	50
2003	Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Lord Chancellor by R. Bowyer	50
2003	A Perspective View of Lincoln's Inn by J. Maurer	75
2004	Forced Labour 34/250 by A. Hrdlicka	500
2004	Cartmel Fell, Windermere 45/100 by N. Ackroyd	500
2004	Les Premiers Astres 21/50 by J. Dickson	50
2005	Calcutta by H. Salt	1,000
2005	Lower Wessex Lane, Summer 9/10 by Stevens	50
2005	Lower Wessex Lane, Spring 28/75 by Stevens	50
2005	Stand On The Green by R. Burn	50
2005	Key Print to Field Marshal, the Duke of Wellington giving orders to his Generals previous to a General Action	50
2006	Abstract by S. Kaner	100
2007	Rival 29/100 by Procktor	400
2007	Sir William Chambers by F. Cotes	75,000
2007	Shipping by J. T. Serres	7,000
2008	Yellow Square Plus Quarter Blue 30/72 by W. Scott	3,000
2008	Mudbanks by J. Trevelyan	500
2008	Calypso 36/50 by J. Trevelyan	500
2008	Breeze I 40/50 by J. Brunsdon	50

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 (Not in Daily Part);508 c1607-9W; 323709

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Government Art Collection

Link

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