Collection of the National Gallery, London
The National Gallery is the primary British national public art gallery, sited on Trafalgar Square, in central London. It is home to one of the world's greatest collections of Western European paintings. Founded in 1824, from an initial purchase of 36 paintings by the British Government, its collections have since grown to about 2,300 paintings by roughly 750 artists dating from the mid-13th century to 1900, most of which are on display. This page lists some of the highlights of the collection.
For the list of all named painters in the collection and their works, see Catalogue of paintings in the National Gallery, London.
Paintings highlights
- American School
- George Bellows – 1 painting
- Dutch School
- Gerard ter Borch – 5 paintings;
- Dirk Bouts – 9 paintings;
- Aelbert Cuyp – 13 paintings;
- Gerrit Dou – 3 paintings;
- Vincent van Gogh – 7 paintings;
- Jan van Goyen – 12 paintings;
- Frans Hals – 8 painting;
- Meyndert Hobbema – 9 paintings;
- Pieter de Hooch – 5 paintings;
- Gabriel Metsu – 6 paintings;
- Aernout van der Neer – 9 paintings;
- Adriaen van Ostade – 5 paintings;
- Rembrandt – 27 paintings;
- Salomon van Ruysdael – 6 paintings;
- Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – 22 paintings;
- Jan Steen – 11 paintings;
- Adriaen van de Velde – 7 paintings;
- Willem van de Velde the Younger – 18 paintings;
- Johannes Vermeer – 2 paintings;
- Jan Weenix – 2 paintings;
- Philip Wouwerman – 12 paintings.
- English School
- John Constable – 6 paintings;
- Thomas Gainsborough – 11 paintings;
- William Hogarth – 9 paintings;
- John Hoppner – 1 painting;
- Thomas Lawrence – 5 paintings;
- Joshua Reynolds – 6 paintings;
- George Stubbs – 3 paintings;
- J. M. W. Turner – 10 paintings
- Joseph Wright of Derby – 2 paintings.
- Flemish School
- Jan Brueghel the Elder – 8 paintings;
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder – 2 painting;
- Petrus Christus – 2 paintings;
- Anthony van Dyck – 25 paintings;
- Jan van Eyck – 5 paintings;
- Jan Mabuse – 9 paintings;
- Quentin Matsys – 10 paintings;
- Hans Memling – 10 paintings;
- Peter Paul Rubens – 30 paintings;
- David Teniers the Younger – 24 paintings.
- French School
- François Boucher – 3 paintings;
- Paul Cézanne – 11 paintings;
- Philippe de Champaigne – 3 paintings;
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – 4 paintings;
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – 29 paintings;
- Jacques-Louis David – 2 paintings;
- Edgar Degas – 15 paintings;
- Eugène Delacroix – 4 paintings;
- Hippolyte Delaroche – 1 painting;
- Gaspard Dughet – 8 paintings;
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard – 2 paintings;
- Paul Gauguin – 4 paintings;
- Théodore Géricault – 2 paintings;
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze – 5 paintings;
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – 6 paintings;
- Claude Lorrain – 14 paintings;
- Jean-Étienne Liotard – 2 paintings;
- Édouard Manet – 5 paintings;
- Claude Monet – 19 paintings;
- Camille Pissarro – 11 paintings;
- Nicolas Poussin – 15 paintings;
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir – 13 paintings;
- Théodore Rousseau – 6 paintings;
- Georges-Pierre Seurat – 11 paintings;
- Claude-Joseph Vernet – 7 paintings;
- Horace Vernet – 6 paintings;
- Jean-Antoine Watteau – 2 paintings.
- German School
- Lucas Cranach the Elder – 11 paintings;
- Albrecht Dürer – 3 paintings;
- Hans Holbein the Younger – 4 paintings;
- Johann Zoffany – 1 painting;
- Italian School
- Fra Angelico – 9 paintings;
- Jacopo Bassano – 5 paintings;
- Giovanni Bellini – 15 paintings;
- Moretto da Brescia – 12 paintings;
- Bernardo Bellotto – 2 paintings;
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini – 2 paintings;
- Sandro Botticelli – 16 paintings;
- Bronzino – 6 paintings;
- Canaletto – 20 paintings;
- Caravaggio – 3 paintings;
- Annibale and Ludovico Carracci – 9 paintings;
- Polidoro da Caravaggio – 1 painting;
- Correggio – 13 paintings;
- Carlo Crivelli – 27 paintings;
- Bernardo Daddi – 1 painting;
- Domenichino – 14 paintings;
- Duccio di Buoninsegna – 5 paintings;
- Raffaellino del Garbo – 3 paintings;
- Luca Giordano – 16 paintings;
- Giotto di Bondone – 2 paintings;
- Domenico Ghirlandaio – 5 paintings;
- Francesco Guardi – 26 paintings;
- Guercino – 9 paintings;
- Leonardo da Vinci – 5 paintings;
- Pietro Longhi – 5 paintings;
- Lorenzo Lotto – 4 paintings;
- Andrea Mantegna – 12 paintings;
- Masaccio – 3 paintings;
- Michelangelo – 4 paintings;
- Giovanni Battista Moroni – 11 paintings;
- Palma the Elder – 3 paintings;
- Giovanni Paolo Pannini – 3 paintings;
- Parmigianino – 5 paintings;
- Piero della Francesca – 3 paintings;
- Pietro Perugino – 8 paintings;
- Francesco Pesellino – 9 paintings;
- Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) – 13 paintings;
- Guido Reni – 12 paintings;
- Sebastiano Ricci – 2 paintings;
- Andrea del Sarto – 2 paintings;
- Bernardo Strozzi – 3 paintings;
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – 11 paintings;
- Tintoretto – 1 painting;
- Titian – 21 paintings;
- Paolo Uccello – 2 paintings;
- Paolo Veronese – 11 paintings;
- Francesco Zuccarelli – 1 painting.
- Spanish School
- Francisco Goya – 5 paintings;
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo – 10 paintings;
- Pablo Picasso – 2 paintings;
- Diego Velázquez – 10 paintings;
- Francisco Zurbarán – 4 paintings.
Galleries
Paintings
- Dutch Paintings
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Young Man with a Skull, Frans Hals, National Gallery, London.jpg
Frans Hals, Young Man with a Skull c. (1626-28)
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Rembrandt, A Woman Bathing in a Stream, (1655)
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Pieter de Hooch - The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658)
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61016Portrait of Jacob Trip.jpg
Rembrandt, Portrait of Jacob Trip, (1661)
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Jan Steen - Skittle Players outside an Inn (1660-3)
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Rembrandt - Self-Portrait - WGA19224.jpg
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, (1669)
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Johannes Vermeer - A Young Woman seated at a Virginal (1670-2)
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Meindert Hobbema - The Avenue at Middelharnis (1689)
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 025.jpg
Rembrandt, The Woman taken in Adultery, 1644
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 086.jpg
Rembrandt, Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume, 1635
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Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh's Chair, 1888
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Gerard David, The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor, probably 1510
- English Paintings
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Marriage A-la-Mode 1, The Marriage Settlement - William Hogarth.jpg
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode (1743)
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Thomas Gainsborough - Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750)
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George Stubbs 003.jpg
George Stubbs, Lady and Gentleman in a Carriage, (1787)
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Joshua Reynolds, Lord Heathfield (1788)
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Constables The Hay Wain.png
John Constable - The Hay Wain (1821)
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John Constable - The Cornfield (1826)
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J. M. W. Turner - The Fighting Temeraire (1839)
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J. M. W. Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844)
- Flemish Paintings
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Portrait of a Man in a Turban (Jan van Eyck) without frame.jpg
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (1433)
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Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Portrait (1434)
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Virgin and Child Follower of Hugo van der Goes.jpg
Follower of Hugo van der Goes - Virgin and Child, c. (1485)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Adoration of the Kings - WGA3461.jpg
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Adoration of the Kings, (1564)
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Anthony van Dyck - The Emperor Theodosius is Forbidden by Saint Ambrose to enter Milan Cathedral (1619-20)
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Judgement of Paris (1632-5)
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Judgement of Paris (1632-5)
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TENIERS the Younger, David - Peasants at Archery (1645).jpg
David Teniers the Younger - Peasants at Archery (1645)
- French Paintings
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Nicolas Poussin 004.jpg
Nicolas Poussin - A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term (1632-3)
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Philippe de Champaigne - Cardinal de Richelieu (1633-40)
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Claude Lorrain 007.jpg
Claude Lorrain - Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula (1641)
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid - WGA8050.jpg
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753)
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Paul Cézanne, Self-Portrait, (1881)
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Claude Monet, The Water-Liliy Pond (National Gallery, London).JPG
Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond, (1899)
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The adoration of the golden calf 1633-36.jpg
Nicolas Poussin, The Adoration of the Golden Calf, 1633–6
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DelarocheLadyJaneGrey.jpg
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Claude Lorrain 002.jpg
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672
- German Paintings
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Albrecht Altdorfer - Landschaft mit einem Steg.jpg
Albrecht Altdorfer, Landscape with Path, c. (1516)
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, (1523)
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Cupid complaining to Venus, (1525)
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Adam Elsheimer - St Paul at Malta - WGA7504.jpg
Adam Elsheimer, St. Paul at Malta, c. (1600)
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Caspar David Friedrich - Winterlandschaft (London).jpg
Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape, (1811)
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, "Ruth in Boaz's Field", (1828)
- Italian Paintings
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Paolo Uccello - The Battle of San Romano (1438-40)
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Sandro Botticelli - Venus and Mars (1485)
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MICHELANGELO - Manchester Madonna.JPG
Michelangelo - The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels (the Manchester Madonna) (1497)
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Giovanni Bellini - The Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501-4)
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Raphael - Portrait of Julius II (1511)
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Titian - Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23)
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The Family of Darius before Alexander by Paolo Veronese 1570.jpg
Paolo Veronese - The Family of Darius before Alexander (1565-70)
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Jacopo Tintoretto 011.jpg
Tintoretto - The Origin of the Milky Way (1575)
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Canaletto - The Stonemason's Yard(1726-30)
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Caravaggio - Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1596)
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Titian, Diana and Callisto, 1556–9
- Spanish Paintings
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El Greco, Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple, (1600)
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Francisco de Zurbarán - Cup of Water and a Rose on a Silver Plate - WGA26060.jpg
Francisco de Zurbarán, Cup of Water and a Rose on a Silver Plate, c. (1630)
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Diego Velázquez 008.jpg
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Francisco Zurbarán, Saint Francis in Meditation (1639) of Martha and Mary, (1618)
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities, (The Pedroso Murillo) (1675-82)
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 099.jpg
Francisco Goya, The Lamp of the Devil, (1797-1798)
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Doña Isabel Cobos de Porc by Francisco Goya.jpg
Francisco Goya, Doña Isabel de Porcel, (1805)
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Duke of Wellington 2.jpg
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