Images of historic paintings such as these may well be in the public domain, but should be "All rights reserved" i.e. I am sure most photographers and contributors are decent, honest folk, but there is a minority of contributors who are submitting images that they have no right to submit as their own work. The artist may have passed away over 70 years ago and the painting itself may be out of copyright, but the photographic image itself must have been taken more recently and distributed for monetary gain without permission of the owner of the painting.
I own these paintings, yet they are on the Alamy website emblazoned with the Alamy logo, as if they own them! The same with museum paintings. They are selling images of 19th Century paintings that I own the original of (by my ancestor). Yet again, I am very concerned about the copyright practices of this company.
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