Rarely-seen paintings, including one of the RRS Discovery in Antarctica, go on show in Dundee.
The exhibition by Dundee Heritage Trust is part of a national celebration to mark the completion of a website which offers access to more than 200,000 oil paintings held by museums, art galleries and civic buildings throughout the UK.
The trust has a small but significant collection of art and has chosen to display a selection of works either previously held in store or recently bought.
On public display for the first time will be Discovery in Winter Quarters, McMurdo Sound, 1902, by marine artist Harold Whitehead. A beautiful depiction of the ship, it is a significant piece of polar history.
It was bought at auction in October for £17,500 with help from the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust and the National Fund for Acquisitions. The painting will be on show at Discovery Point.
At DHT’s other venue, the Verdant Works jute museum, a selection of paintings by Dundee artist Charles GL Phillips will be displayed.
Phillips studied at Dundee College of Art between 1879 and 1882 and regularly exhibited his work at the Royal Scottish Academy. With a forte for landscapes and townscapes, he took much inspiration from Dundee and the surrounding area.
Works on display include Dundee Docks, Gathering Seaweed, Westhaven and Earn River. Exhibited alongside them is a portrait of Phillips by Stewart Carmichael.
Curator Julie Millerick said: “It is a fantastic opportunity for us to display works from the trust’s rich collections, including newly-acquired pieces which we hope our visitors will enjoy and feel inspired by.”
All the paintings will be on display until April 12. Your Paintings is a joint venture by the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation.
Images of 211,861 paintings by more than 37,000 artists are now available to view online at bbc.co.uk/yourpaintings.
They span more than 600 years of art history arguably the greatest national collection of its kind in the world.
Due to limitations of exhibition space, 80% of these works are normally held in storage and not easily visible to the public.
The website features paintings from 441 museums, galleries and public buildings in Scotland, including the National Museum of Scotland, the Burrell and the National Portrait Museum.
Saul Nasse, controller of BBC Learning, said: “The idea that we could put on virtual display all the UK’s paintings was madly ambitious.
“But thanks to a brilliant partnership with the PCF, we’ve realised that ambition.
“Your Paintings is a thing of beauty and I’m hoping the events that we’re rolling out right across the country are going to inspire thousands more people to learn about these wonderful paintings.”
Andrew Ellis from the Public Catalogue Foundation said: “No other country has ever embarked on such a project to make accessible online its entire collection of oil paintings.
“The result is an extraordinarily rich and varied virtual gallery of paintings with styles and subject matters to suit all tastes and interests.”