Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Portrait of Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Original – Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting) done by a grand master

NGA copy Holy crap, the National Gallery of Art has an "Open Access Images" project that are "free of charge for download and use". You have to register, but the registration is free and easy. Methinks we will be seeing a lot of new images from this source... Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:57, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Reason

Quality image with good E.V. - the colours are very near the original colours of the artwork

Articles in which this image appears

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Thomas Gainsborough

• Support either as nominator – SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:31, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose Great painting, but there's issues with the reproduction - lots of artefacts, and, as it's a Yorck Project scan, it's highly likely the colours are off. I'd like to see this painting featured, but we'll need a better photo. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:35, 7 August 2014 (UTC) Oppose original, support NGA copy. Just look at it: It's gorgeous, and the NGA wants them to be used. (And now you see why we don't tend to promote Yorck Project copies at FPC) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:43, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Ace, brilliant - thank you, Adam! Do I need to change my above support to the NGA version? SagaciousPhil - Chat 08:41, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Probably wouldn't hurt, but I think Armbrust can figure it out. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:30, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Regarding Adam's recent enthusiasm for the NGA high resolution pics, they've been out for more than a year now and were highly publicised at the time [1]. I for one have been uploading their images to Commons, and I assume Hafs' recent Fragonard image came from the same source. There are 25,000 such images and it raises a point I've made before - these high resolution are now two a penny (the Prado, the Rijks and many others are similar examples of museums now offering high resolution images, even Getty offers them). Are we really going to Feature them all? Does it really depend on the personal whims (and erm...niche interests) of Talk page badge collectors? What we really are in some need of here is attention to the same kinds of details regarding fidelity and scholarship we see amongst the photographers regarding technical issues. At the moment that's not happening. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 06:35, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

• Shame I can't find this on Google Art Project. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support NGA version, please! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:00, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support, for NGA copy. Fylbecatulous talk 08:16, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support NGA copy, thanks for digging it out. Brandmeister^talk 14:06, 11 August 2014 (UTC)