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National Gallery, The, London

Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN (map)
Telephone: 020 7747 2885
Web site: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
See also: London

Background information
The National Gallery was founded in 1824 and houses the national collection of Western European painting: over 2,000 pictures from 1260-1900. The collection represents all the major European schools of painting and includes masterpieces by virtually all the great artists. It is arranged by period in four wings.

Sainsbury Wing: 1260 to 1510

West Wing: 1510 to 1600

North Wing: 1600 to 1700

East Wing: 1700 to 1900

Please direct specific email queries relating to the National Gallery Collection to:

information@ng-london.org.uk


General information
Facilities: Cafe, Shop, Disabled Access, Tours, Lectures, Micro Gallery
Admission: 10.00-6.00 Monday to Sunday; and opens till 9.00pm on Wednesdays
How to find us: Public Car Park in Whitcomb Street. 3,6,9,11,12,13,15,23,24,29,53,53x,77a,88,91,94,109,139,159,176. Charing Cross (Underground: Embankment, Charring Cross, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square)

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Highlights of the Collection

Aachen, Hans von The Amazement of the Gods

Bellini, Giovanni Doge Leonardo Loredan

Bosch, Hieronymus Christ Mocked

Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo - Allegory

Cézanne, Paul Bathers

Canaletto, Antonio The Stonemasons Yard

Cimabue The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Claude Gellée, Le Lorraine Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid - 'The Enchanted Castle'

Constable, John The Hay Wain

Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cupid complaining to Venus

Crivelli, Carlo The Annunciation with Saint Emidius

Cuyp, Aelbert A Hilly Landscape

Daubigny, Charles François St Paul's from the Surrey Side, 1871

David, Jacques-Louis Jacobus Blauw

Drouais, François Hubert Mme de Pompadour

Dyck, Anthony van Equestrian Portrait of Charles I

Dyck, Anthony van The Abbe Scaglia ; The Abbe Scaglia

Eustache Le Sueur Alexander and his Doctor

Eyck, Jan van The Arnolfini Portrait

Friedrich, Caspar David Winter Landscape

Gainsborough, Thomas Morning Walk

Gallen-Kallela, Akseli Lake Keitele, 1905

Gogh, Vincent van A Wheatfield with Cypresses

Guercino The Dead Christ mourned by Two Angels

Hogarth, William Marriage A-la-Mode

Holbein the Younger, Hans A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling

Holbein the Younger, Hans Ambassadors ; Ambassadors

Holbein the Younger, Hans Duchess of Milan ; Duchess of Milan

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Madame Moitessier

Lawrence, Sir Thomas Queen Charlotte

Leonardo da Vinci The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist

Leonardo da Vinci The Virgin of the Rocks ; The Virgin of the Rocks

Lotto, Lorenzo A Lady as Lucretia

Manet, Edouard Execution of Maximilian

Mantegna, Andrea The Agony in the Garden

Mantegna, Andrea The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele ; The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele

Masaccio The Virgin and Child

Matteo di Giovanni St Thomas and the Assumption

Memling, Hans Donne Triptych

Michelangelo Buonarotti Entombment

Monet, Claude Bathers at La Grenouillre

Monet, Claude The Thames below Westminster, 1873 ; The Thames below Westminster, 1873

Monet, Claude Waterlily Pond ; Waterlily Pond

Moreau, Gustave St George slaying the Dragon

Peronneau, Jean Bapiste Girl with Kitten

Peronneau, Jean Bapiste Jacques Cazotte ; Jacques Cazotte

Piero della Francesca Baptism of Christ

Piero della Francesca The Baptism of Christ ; The Baptism of Christ

Pisanello, Antonio Vision of St Eustace

Polidoro da Caravaggio Portrait of a Knight of Saint John

Polidoro da Caravaggio The Way to Calvary ; The Way to Calvary

Poussin, Nicolas Worship of the Golden Calf

Raeburn, Sir Henry The Archers

Raphael Ansidei Madonna

Raphael Madonna of the Pinks ; Madonna of the Pinks

Raphael Portrait of Julius II ; Portrait of Julius II

Rego, Paula Murals in the Sainsbury Wing Brasserie

Rembrandt van Rijn Belshazzar's Feast

Rembrandt van Rijn Saskia as Flora ; Saskia as Flora

Rembrandt van Rijn Self Portrait aged 63 ; Self Portrait aged 63

Rembrandt van Rijn Woman Bathing in a Stream ; Woman Bathing in a Stream

Rubens, Peter Paul 'Le Chapeau de Paille'

Rubens, Peter Paul Altarpiece modello of St Bavo ; Altarpiece modello of St Bavo

Rubens, Peter Paul Samson and Delilah ; Samson and Delilah

Rubens, Peter Paul The Rape of the Sabine Women ; The Rape of the Sabine Women

Rubens, Peter Paul The Watering Place ; The Watering Place

Rustici, Giovanni Francesco Mercury taking Flight c.1515

Sebastiano del Piombo Raising of Lazarus

Seurat, Georges Bathers at Asnires

Stubbs, George Whistlejacket

Subleyras, Pierre Diana and Enymion

The Clarisse Master The Virgin and Child c.1265-75

Titian Bacchus and Ariadne

Titian Noli me tangere ; Noli me tangere

Titian The Death of Actaeon ; The Death of Actaeon

Titian Venus and Adonis ; Venus and Adonis

Turner, Joseph Mallord William The 'Fighting Temeraire'

Uccello, Paolo Battle of San Romano

Velázquez, Diego Portrait of Philip IV of Spain

Velázquez, Diego The Toilet of Venus - 'The Rokeby Venus' ; The Toilet of Venus - 'The Rokeby Venus'

Vermeer, Jan A Young Woman standing at a Virginal

Veronese, Paolo Family of Darius before Alexander

Vigée-Le Brun, Elizabeth Louise Self-Portrait

Wilton Diptych Artist The Wilton Diptych


Other artists represented in the Collection

Allegretto Nuzi

Altdorfer, Albrecht

Angelico, Fra

Antonello da Messina

Ast, Balthasar van der

Avercamp, Hendrick

Bacchiacca

Baldung Grien, Hans

Bartolommeo, Fra

Bassano, Jacopo

Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo

Bellini, Gentile

Bellotto, Bernardo

Bernini, Gianlorenzo

Boilly, Louis-Léopold

Bonheur, Rosa

Bordone, Paris

Bosschaert, Ambrosius

Both, Jan

Botticelli, Sandro

Boucher, François

Bouts, Dieric

Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo -

Bruegel the Elder, Jan

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter

Cézanne, Paul

Campin, Robert

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

Carracci, Annibale

Castagno, Andrea dal

Catena, Vincenzo

Champaigne, Philippe de

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon

Christus, Petrus

Cima da Conegliano

Claude Gellée, Le Lorraine

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille

Correggio, Antonio

Courbet, Jean-Désiré-Gustave

Dürer, Albrecht

Daumier, Honoré-Victorin

David, Gerard

Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar

Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène

Domenichino

Dosso Dossi

Dou, Gerrit

Duccio di Buoninsegna

Dughet, Gaspard

Dyck, Anthony van

Elsheimer, Adam

Eyck, Jan van

Fabritius, Carel

Fantin-Latour, Henri

Flinck, Govert

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré

Géricault, Théodore

Gainsborough, Thomas

Gauguin, Paul

Geertgen tot Sint Jans

Ghirlandaio, Domenico

Giordano, Luca

Giorgione

Giotto di Bondone

Giovanni di Paolo

Giulio Romano

Goes, Hugo van der

Gogh, Vincent van

Gossaert, Jan

Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de

Greco, El

Greuze, Jean Baptiste

Guardi, Francesco

Hals, Frans

Harpignies, Henri

Heda, Gerrit Willemsz.

Heda, Willem Claesz.

Hobbema, Meindert

Holbein the Younger, Hans

Honthorst, Gerrit van

Hooch, Pieter de

Hoogstraten, Samuel van

Joos van Cleve

Jordaens, Jacob

Kalf, Willem

Keyser, Thomas de

Lancret, Nicolas

Le Nain, Louis

Leighton, Frederic, Lord

Leonardo da Vinci

Leyster, Judith

Lippi, Filippino

Lippi, Fra Filippo

Longhi, Pietro

Lorenzo Monaco

Lucas van Leyden

Mélèndez, Luis

Maes, Nicolaes

Matisse, Henri

Metsu, Gabriel

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Mignard, Pierre

Millet, Jean François 'Francisque'

Monet, Claude

Monticelli, Adolphe

Mor, Antonio

Morisot, Berthe

Murillo, Bartolomé Estebán

Palma Vecchio

Parmigianino, Francesco

Perugino, Pietro

Pesellino, Francesco

Piero della Francesca

Piero di Cosimo

Pintoricchio, Bernardino

Pissarro, Camille

Pollaiuolo, Antonio

Poussin, Nicolas

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre

Raphael

Rembrandt van Rijn

Reni, Guido

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Ribera, Jusepe de

Rigaud, Hyacinthe

Roberti, Ercole d'Antonio de'

Rosa, Salvator

Rousseau, Henri

Rubens, Peter Paul

Ruisdael, Jacob van

Ruysch, Rachel

Ruysdael, Salomon van

Saenredam, Pieter

Sargent, John Singer

Savery, Roelandt

Sisley, Alfred

Steen, Jan

Ter Borch, Gerard

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista

Tintoretto, Jacopo

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

Tura, Cosimo

Turner, Joseph Mallord William

Valdés Leal, Juan de

Van Huysum, Jan

Velázquez, Diego

Velde the Elder, Willem van de

Velde the Younger, Willem van de

Vermeer, Jan

Verrocchio, Andrea del

Vuillard, Édouard

Watteau, Jean-Antoine

Weyden, Rogier van der

Wright of Derby, Joseph

Wtewael, Joachim

Zoffany, Johann

Zurbaran, Francisco de


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Visitors Forum

can any one show old info once on yahoo copy painting of raphael pope jullius ll in london gallery 1824 badly damaged any info ???.


todd - 2006-07-17

Hello to you i bought a picture around 10 years ago

its called les mullins by heindert hobbema it contains a watermill

and reflection in pond below lots of people in for ground .

Ihave seen prints for sale but this looks very origanil but allas

no sign of his name could be a good copy,
cb - 2005-03-30

Please email any specific questions relating to the National Gallery Collection to:

information@ng-london.org.uk

Telephone: 020-7747 2885 (information)

Thank you

Information Dept.

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National Gallery - 2002-04-22

CAN ANY ONE GIVE ME INFO ON JOHN SINGER.IVE FOUND A PAINTING IN OUR LOFT SIGNED JUST JOHN SINGER AND IM NOT SURE WHAT IT IS .YES I KNOW IT SOUNDS STUPID BUT IM NOT A PIANTING BUFF


TINA - 2001-10-18

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