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All the paintings featured in BBC's Britain's Lost Masterpieces were found on Art UK. Public collections around the country have many more artworks in need of research

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Photo credit: : Wilton Town Council

Artist Portraits: British 19th C, South West England: Artists and Subjects 24

Which 'Mr Phillips' might have painted John Swayne?

Portrait of a Young Boy, Perhaps a Prince

Photo credit: : Queen's University Belfast

Subject or sitter British 16th and 17th C, except portraits, Continental European before 1800, Dress and Textiles, Scotland: Artists and Subjects 79

Forward Who painted this portrait of a child in a red gown with a coral teething rattle and a wreath? Who is the sitter?

Photo credit: : Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Artist British 20th C, except portraits, Wales: Artists and Subjects 57

Can we find out more about the artist G. Howell Baker?

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