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Artworks that have been removed from Downing Street.

Updated 15 January 2026
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GAC Number Artist Artwork Location Removed
11750/10 Dame Barbara Hepworth Two Opposing Forms; Opposing Forms Deinstalled from Cabinet Office (CO) and moved to His Majesty's Treasury (HMT)
11750/5 Dame Barbara Hepworth Assembly of Square Forms; Opposing Forms Deinstalled from CO and moved to HMT
11750/4 Dame Barbara Hepworth December Forms; Opposing Forms Deinstalled from CO and moved to HMT
3787 Marcus, the Younger Gheeraerts Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Reigned 1558-1603 Deinstalled from CO and moved to HMT
20 John (after) Taylor; Louis François Roubiliac William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Playwright and Poet CO
17 Rowland, (After) Lockey Mary, Queen of Scots 1542-1587 (Reigned 1542-1566) Deinstalled from CO and moved to HMT
0/299 British 16th century unknown Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) courtier, explorer, and author CO
19127 Iwan Lewis Orenau; XUK CO
16811 Samuel Scott Horse Guards Parade CO
7237 Samuel and Nathaniel Buck The South West Prospect of Richmond, in the County of York CO
707 Tilly Kettle Portrait of a Lady with a Dog (possibly Susannah Wombwell (née Rawlinson; d1816), wife of Sir George Wombwell, 1st Baronet) CO
18771 Chila Kumari Singh Burman BENGAL TIGER VAN - Raspberry Ripples, Chila’s Dad selling ice-cream on Freshfield Beach, Merseyside 1976 CO
11750/A Dame Barbara Hepworth Title page; Opposing Forms CO
11750/11 Dame Barbara Hepworth Three Forms; Opposing Forms CO
11750/7 Dame Barbara Hepworth Rangatira I; Opposing Forms CO
11750/6 Dame Barbara Hepworth High Tide; Opposing Forms CO
11750/3 Dame Barbara Hepworth Winter Solstice; Opposing Forms CO
11750/2 Dame Barbara Hepworth Two Ancestral Figures; Opposing Forms CO
17868 Antony Gormley - Untitled Untitled CO
0/25 John Shackleton William Hoare - Henry Pelham (1694-1754) Prime Minister HMT
0/33 Sir Anthony van Dyck unknown, 19th century - Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (1579-1635) diplomat, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord High Treasurer HMT
0/86 Lawrence Gahagan (after) Charles James Fox (1749-1806) politician HMT
272 Geoffrey Tibble Figures HMT
279 John de Critz (after) King James VI and I (1566-1625) reigned Scotland from 1567, England 1603-1625 HMT
350 Robert Griffier Greenwich HMT
1636 John Michael Wright King James II and VII (1633-1701) Reigned 1685-8, when Duke of York HMT
1723 Arthur Kampf Cecil Arthur Tooke, OBE (1884-1966) seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMT
2464 Leonard Rosoman The Coronation Procession in the Mall, from Admiralty Arch HMT
3686 Spencer Frederick Gore Landscape [possibly in Yorkshire] HMT
4742 Bernard Cheese Little Johns Haven HMT
6193 Mary Fedden Fish on a Black Dish HMT
6670 John Wootton Wooded Landscape and Coastal Town HMT
7264 Sir Sidney Nolan Shakespeare Sonnet 11 HMT
8757 Sir Godfrey Kneller - Jacobus Houbraken Not set HMT
8761 Sir Godfrey Kneller - Jacobus Houbraken Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl Godolphin (1645-1712) Financier HMT
8762 Sir Godfrey Kneller - John Smith I Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715) politician and financier HMT
8764 Sir Godfrey Kneller - Jacobus Houbraken Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton (1669-1725) politician - The Heads and Characters of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain HMT
8765 Michael Dahl - George Vertue Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1689-1741) book collector and patron of the arts - HMT
9267 unknown, British 18th century Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) natural philosopher and mathematician HMT
12110 Charles Bell Birch - Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) Prime Minister - HMT
12552 Malcolm Midwood Milne - Street Scene Street Scene HMT
13333 Gainsborough Dupont William Pitt (1759-1806) Prime Minister HMT
13349 Vanessa Bell Byzantine Lady HMT
13783 William Johnstone Surrey Landscape HMT
16765 Paula Rego Study for Crivelli's Garden (The Visitation) HMT
16766 Paula Rego Study for Crivelli's Garden HMT
17717 Eric Ravilious Working Controls while Submerged HMT
18114/1 Justine Smith Pound - Icons - 72/80 HMT
18114/2 Justine Smith Euro - Icons - 72/80 HMT
18114/3 Justine Smith Dollar - Icons - 72/80 HMT
18114/4 Justine Smith - Yen - Icons - 72/80 HMT
18355 Lisa Milroy Lights HMT
18624 Lemuel Francis Abbott George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) diplomat and colonial governor HMT
18812 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Almond Clasp HMT
18834 David Nash Blue Column II HMT
18962 Donna Coleman - Everything is different now 2 HMT
19030 Tomas Harker Midas Touch HMT
19169 Soheila Sokhanvari Ode to Love (portrait of Marzieh) - HMT
19203 Christina Kimeze Still (III) HMT
3087 Mary Fedden Arturo and the Girls HMT
3701 Amy Katherine Browning Summer Light HMT
6423 Ben Levene - Landscape with House - Spain - oil painting Landscape with House HMT
7971 Edward Wadsworth Marseilles Harbour, Quai du Port HMT
8171 John Northcote Nash A Berkshire Hillside HMT
8536 Paul Nash Event on the Downs Removed from HMT for exhibition loan
9421 Brigid Derham Transcription from Giorgione's Tempesta No 2 HMT
10924 Albert Irvin Abounding HMT
12971 Derek Hyatt The Blue Cloud HMT
14365 Peter Blake Fat Boy - Side Show - 15/100 HMT
14366 Peter Blake Bearded Lady - Side Show - 15/100 HMT
14367 Peter Blake Tattooed Man - Side Show - 15/100 HMT
14368 Peter Blake Giant - Side Show - 15/100 HMT
14369 Peter Blake Midget - Side Show - 15/100 HMT
14369A Peter Blake Frontispiece - Side Show - 15/100 HMT
14590 Adrian Scott Stokes Moonrise on the Zuyderzee HMT
14776 Jessica Dismorr Landscape with Trees HMT
14777 Jessica Dismorr Landscape with Cottages HMT
17274/3 Damien Hirst Untitled - London - 15/65 - HMT
17394 Albert Irvin Trinity I - 116/125 HMT
17571 Martin Creed Work No. 253: THINGS - 1/3 HMT
17779/5 Michael Landy Creeping Buttercup - Nourishment - 5/37 HMT
17779/9 Michael Landy Common Toadflax - Nourishment - 5/37 - etchin HMT
17779/12 Michael Landy Annual Wall-Rocket - Nourishment - 5/37 - HMT
18070/1 Joe Tilson Calliope - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18070/2 Joe Tilson Urania - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18070/3 Joe Tilson Erato - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 - aquatint HMT
18070/4 Joe Tilson erpsichore - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18070/5 Joe Tilson Polyhymnia - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18070/6 Joe Tilson Thalia - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18070/7 Joe Tilson Melpomene - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18070/8 Joe Tilson Euterpe - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18070/9 Joe Tilson Clio - Le Nove Muse / The Nine Muses - 19/45 HMT
18126/6 Mark Titchner Time is Truth - Studio Voltaire Print Portfolio 2006 - 45/70 HMT
18260/3 Bob and Roberta Smith Bring Back Edinburgh's Trams - Billboard for Edinburgh - 23/50 HMT
18559 Jane Harris The Parting HMT
18777/3 Hurvin Anderson Still Life with Artificial Flowers HMT
L388 André Bicât Aubergines HMT
11664 Barbara Newcomb Race V HMT
11665 Barbara Newcomb Swimmer HMT
9233 Bernard Cheese Jubilant Crowd HMT
11182 Carmen Gracia Nouveau Né... HMT
L508 Edward Bawden Smithfield Market; Six London Markets HMT
11165 Michael Stokoe Flash Past HMT
9771 Robert Tavener Sussex Boats & Nets (No.2) HMT
17652 Seamus Nicolson Jason HMT
18650/10 Sir Howard Hodgkin Herb Garden; Alan Cristea Gallery Twentieth Anniversary Portfolio HMT
13291 Tom Phillips Ten Views of the Union Jack HMT
18810 Joy Labinjo Man drinking coffee Removed from HMT for exhibition loan
18985 Willie Doherty Ashen, Restless HMT
12730 R B Kitaj Partisan Review; In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part CO
13816 Amanda Ryder Konig CO
18270 Mary Martin White Diagonal CO
18593/29 Hugo Haig-Thomas Campylanthus pungens (Scrophulariaceae) CO
18670 Nicole Wermers Sequence #G6 CO
18737 Bethan Huws Untitled (The priority of speech...) CO
18823 Martine Poppe Good Morning CO
18824/14 Tacita Dean Foreign Policy (screenprint edition); TenTen CO
18831 David A Bailey Family Album Series CO
18877 Goshka Macuga Discrete Model 021 CO
18923 Joy Gerrard Protest Crowd, London, Version 4, Sideview (Extinction Rebellion, Oxford Circus, October 2019); XUK CO
18924 Joy Gerrard International Women’s Day. Paris. March 2020; XUK CO
19040 Phyllida Barlow Pointer; Pointer CO