Haunted portrait in Your Paintings online archive

A portrait of Lady Ossington, said to be haunted by art painting its subject, is one of 200,000 publicly-owned oil paintings being made available to view online, as part of a BBC campaign. For nearly 100 years, it hung in the Ossington Coffee Palace in Newark, Nottinghamshire. But when the establishment began nba jerseys to sell alcohol, some claim the ghost of Lady Ossington became offended and there were reports of the oil painting “flying off the wall”.

The Victorian artwork is now kept in stores, like 80% of the swiss military watch oil paintings in the UK’s national art collection, but can be seen and its story read, on the Your Paintings website. Haunting history Viscountess Ossington built the coffee palace on Beastmarket Hill in 1882 as a charitable concern.

Its aim was to provide a hostel where travellers could find accommodation for cocktail dresses the night without the temptation of drink on the premises. The Viscountess was to be its manager until her death and was to be succeeded by a group of trustees to maintain the building “in a crusade against the demon drink”, according to designer wedding dresses its title deed. But in the 1960s a court decided the trust was not a charitable institution as the hotel had always been run on commercial lines. The heirs of Viscountess Ossington were traced as the true beneficiaries and the coffee palace was sold in 1978.

Shortly afterwards it became a public house. It is then the portrait runescape gold is said to have started to repeatedly “fly off the wall”. Newark and Sherwood District museum service purchased the artwork – believed to have been painted by George Frederick Watts – at auction in 1981. “It is wow power leveling a hefty piece which may be a more rational explanation for why it fell off walls,” said the museum service’s Kevin Winter.