Katrina Palmer shares her interest in the visible and invisible activities that take place in the Gallery. Katrina Palmer offers a different perspective on Room 18 and its paintings. Struck by an ...

'The Finding of Moses’ depicts an Old Testament story. This monumental painting was commissioned by King Charles I and Henrietta Maria to celebrate the arrival of their first son. Two kings, of ...

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Of the Gallery’s 27 works by women, one-third have been acquired because of these acts of generosity. Most recently, The Full ...

Join us for this early access introduction to ‘ Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300 ‒1350 ’. This exhibition brings to life the ...

This large canvas was probably painted in the late 1650s. 1 Cuyp’s patrons, like those of his father, the portrait painter Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp, appear to have been members of the regent families of ...

Extracted from: Neil MacLaren; revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch School 1600–1900 (London: National Gallery Publications Limited, 1991).

Young Man holding a Skull Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, 1991. Ext ...

These catalogue entries are the result of a pilot project to set up a process that takes the desktop publishing files that were sent to press, converts them to a more flexible digital format, and ...

These catalogue entries are the result of a pilot project to set up a process that takes the desktop publishing files that were sent to press, converts them to a more flexible digital format, and ...

The introductory essay considers the attitude of eighteenth-century Britons to the French and to paintings by French contemporaries, and notes many of the French eighteenth-century paintings then ...

These catalogue entries are the result of a pilot project to set up a process that takes the desktop publishing files that were sent to press, converts them to a more flexible digital format, and ...