Your Paintings: Artworks from London's public collections go online

BBC - Of the 200,000 paintings that belong to the nation and are owned by British taxpayers, most are in storage, or on walls few can see. London's public collections are no exception, but now a new online gallery will throw open the vaults so at least digital versions can be seen.

There are works by firefighters and by established masters. By local landscape lovers and by painters commissioned to record a prominent person or a particular profession.

Many of these publicly owned paintings are in well known galleries and museums, but many are in offices, town halls and even schools.  Read more.