Hello Jean
The V & A requires permission to reproduce any postcards you buy from
them, so unless they already have permission from a copyright owner, I
presume they own the copyright on any paintings they have bought or
had donated to them.
That's because they own the photograph rather than the painting. In
much the same way that a printer can own the copyright to the
typesetting of, say a work by Shakespeare, even though the work itself
is out of copyright. You could legally retype the words yourself but
not photocopy them from his typesetting.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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