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We now have our shortlist of 10 paintings taken from your nominations. Our specialist panel deliberated over all of the nominations and came up with the final shortlist.

The Panel was:
JONATHAN YEO Portrait painter
DEBORAH BULL Writer and broadcaster
MARTIN GAYFORD Art critic and journalist

It's now over to you. VOTE for your choice out of the shortlisted 10 below by clicking in the radio button below the painting of your choice and then click the SUBMIT button at the bottom of the page.
We'll announce the winner live on air on Monday 5th September.

**CLICK on the small picture thumbnails to view the larger prints.

By Jan van Eyck
© The National Gallery, London


Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Arnolfini

By Joseph Mallord William Turner
© The National Gallery, London

Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Temeraire


By John Constable

© The National Gallery, London


Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Hay Wain

By William Hogarth
© By Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum

Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Rake's

By Piero della Francesca
© The National Gallery, London

Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Baptism

By Edouard Manet
© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London

Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Bergere


By Vincent van Gogh
© The National Gallery, London


Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Sunflowers

By Madox Brown
© The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word England

By Sir Henry Raeburn
© The National Gallery of Scotland

Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Skating

By David Hockney
© David Hockney
Exhibited at the Tate Britain, presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery

Or you can text your vote on 84844 using the word Clark



Thank you for voting.

The National Gallery

The Greatest Painting in Britain is in association with The National Gallery.

They have provided information about regional galleries. 

**LOOK at some of the paintings that were nominated by the great and the good, some of which didn't make the shortlist.

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