The National Gallery

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The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting consisting of around 2,300 pictures, including many instantly recognisable masterpeices.

The Gallery is in four wings, each covering a specific timespan, with the overall timespan ranging from 1260 to 1900, and including every European school of painting. If your interest is in art after 1900 then you should visit The Tate Gallery which holds the national collection of 20th-century art. An agreement exists between the two galleries which established the 1900 cut-off point.

The works of the following prominent artists can be seen: Duccio, Masaccio, Jan van Eyck , Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Memling, Mantegna, Bellini, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Bronzino, Titian , Veronese, Tintoretto, Holbein, Cranach, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, Poussin, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Vel￡zquez, Canaletto, Tiepolo, David, Gainsborough, Stubbs , Turner, Constable, Ingres, Friedrich, Corot, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Van Gogh, and C￩zanne.

The National Gallery website is very informative and includes images and details of the more important works. You will also find details of temporary exhibitions there.

Other Art Galleries that may be of interest are: National Portrait Gallery in Soho, Courtauld Gallery in London, Burlington Paintings in Mayfair, The Redfern Gallery Ltd in London, Houldsworth Fine Art in London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery in Mayfair.

Attractions near The National Gallery include Duke of Yorks Theatre in Westminster, The Theatre Royal Haymarket in Haymarket, Nash House in London, The Vaudeville Theatre in City of Westminster, The London Pavillion in London, Covent Garden Market in London, St James's Church in London, Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden, Burlington Arcade in London, London Eye in London.