Summary

This Surrey volume - the ninth in the Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series - brings together some 1,550 paintings from 58 collections in the county.

This Surrey volume - the ninth in the Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series - brings together some 1,550 paintings from 58 collections in the county. Among these are two galleries dedicated to the work of single artists, George Frederick Watts and Sidney H. Sime. There is also the Royal Holloway College collection which includes an important holding of Victorian paintings including works by Frith, Landseer and Millais. Numerous municipal collections held in museums, council buildings and libraries are also shown. The Public Catalogue Foundation is a registered charity based in the National Gallery, London, that has been set up to record the nation's entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership and to make this accessible through a series of affordable catalogs. The catalogs are produced on a county-by-county basis. Catalogs published to date: Cambridgeshire: The Fitzwilliam Museum, East Sussex, Kent, London: The Slade and UCL, North Yorkshire, Suffolk, Surrey, West Sussex and West Yorkshire: Leeds .