What’s in Store
Andrew Ellis introduces a huge on-going project to publish a series of catalogues showing every oil painting in public ownership in the United Kingdom.
The walls of the fire station in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, boast a nineteenth-century painting depicting a heroic fire brigade officer passing to anxious parents in evening dress their children rescued from a fire. The work is by William George Home Rosenberg, who exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871 and 84. It appears in the forthcoming catalogue, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Hampshire: Southampton and the Isle of Wight, and although it is the only one from a fire station in this volume, the Public Catalogue Foundation has photographed a number of other paintings in fire stations around the country since the start of the project in 2003.
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