Collection of the National Gallery
Image:Jan Vermeer van Delft 024.jpg, Lady Standing at a Virginal (1670–1672).]]
File:Diego Velázquez - Rokeby Venus.jpg, Rokeby Venus (1647–51).]]
Image:Anthonis van Dyck - Equestrian Portrait of Charles I - National Gallery, London.jpg, Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637–1638).]]
Image:Samson and Delilah by Rubens.jpg, Samson and Delilah (1609–10).]]
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
Image:Baigneurs a Asnieres.jpg, Bathers at Asnières (1884).]]
Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 127.jpg, Sunflowers (1888).]]
File:Titian - Diana and Actaeon - 1556-1559.jpg, Diana and Actaeon (1556), jointly with the National Gallery of Scotland.]]
Image:Hans Holbein the Younger - The Ambassadors - Google Art Project.jpg, The Ambassadors (1533).]]
File:Leonardo da Vinci - Virgin of the Rocks (National Gallery London).png – The Virgin of the Rocks (1495–1508).]]
Image:Entombment Michelangelo.jpg, The Entombment (1500–1501).]]
Image:Raphael Madonna of the Pinks.jpg, The Madonna of the Pinks (La Madonna dei Garofani) (1506–07).]]
- 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;
- Artemisia Gentileschi - 1 painting;
- 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 – 3 paintings;
- 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 de Zurbarán – 4 paintings.
Galleries
=Paintings=
;Dutch Paintings
File:Young Man with a Skull, Frans Hals, National Gallery, London.jpg|Frans Hals, Young Man with a Skull c. (1626–28)
File:A Woman Bathing in a Stream by Rembrandt.jpg|Rembrandt, A Woman Bathing in a Stream, (1655)
Image:Aelbert Cuyp 007.jpg|Aelbert Cuyp - Peasants and Cattle by the River Merwede (1658–60)
Image:Pieter de Hooch - The Courtyard of a House in Delft.jpg|Pieter de Hooch - The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658)
File:61016Portrait of Jacob Trip.jpg|Rembrandt, Portrait of Jacob Trip, (1661)
Image:Jan Steen - Skittles Players Outside an Inn.jpg|Jan Steen - Skittle Players outside an Inn (1660-3)
File:Rembrandt - Self-Portrait - WGA19224.jpg|Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, (1669)
Image:Johannes Vermeer - Zittende Klavecimbelspeelster (1673-1675).jpg|Johannes Vermeer - Lady Seated at a Virginal (1670-2)
Image:Meindert Hobbema 001.jpg|Meindert Hobbema - The Avenue at Middelharnis(1689)
Image:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 025.jpg|Rembrandt, The Woman taken in Adultery, 1644
Image:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 086.jpg|Rembrandt, Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume, 1635
File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 138.jpg|Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh's Chair, 1888
File:Gerard David - The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor - Google Art Project.jpg|Gerard David, The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor, probably 1510
;English Paintings
File:Marriage A-la-Mode 1, The Marriage Settlement - William Hogarth.jpg|William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode (1743)
File:Gainsborough-Andrews.jpg|Thomas Gainsborough - Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750)
File:George Stubbs 003.jpg|George Stubbs, Lady and Gentleman in a Carriage, (1787)
File:George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield - by Joshua Reynolds - Project Gutenberg eText 19009.jpg|Joshua Reynolds, Lord Heathfield (1788)
Image:Constables The Hay Wain.png|John Constable - The Hay Wain (1821)
File:Constable - The Cornfield.jpg|John Constable - The Cornfield (1826)
Image:The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner, National Gallery.jpg|J. M. W. Turner - The Fighting Temeraire (1839)
File:Rain Steam and Speed the Great Western Railway.jpg|J. M. W. Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844)
;Flemish Paintings
File:Portrait of a Man in a Turban (Jan van Eyck) without frame.jpg|Jan van Eyck - Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (1433)
Image:Van Eyck - Arnolfini Portrait.jpg|Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Portrait (1434)
File:Hugo van der Goes - Virgin and Child NG 3066.jpg|Follower of Hugo van der Goes - Virgin and Child, c. (1485)
File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Adoration of the Kings - WGA3461.jpg|Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Adoration of the Kings, (1564)
Image:Anthonis van Dyck 005.jpg|Anthony van Dyck - The Emperor Theodosius is Forbidden by Saint Ambrose to enter Milan Cathedral, (1619–20)
Image:Rubens - Judgement of Paris.jpg|Peter Paul Rubens - The Judgement of Paris (1632-5)
File:Peter Paul Rubens - The Judgment of Paris - WGA20307.jpg|Peter Paul Rubens - The Judgement of Paris (1632-5)
Image:TENIERS the Younger, David - Peasants at Archery (1645).jpg|David Teniers the Younger - Peasants at Archery (1645)
;French Paintings
Image:Nicolas Poussin 004.jpg|Nicolas Poussin - A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term (1632-3)
Image:Cardinal de Richelieu.jpg|Philippe de Champaigne - Cardinal de Richelieu (1633–40)
Image:Claude Lorrain 007.jpg|Claude Lorrain - Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula (1641)
Image: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)
File:Edgar Degas, Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, 1879.jpg|Edgar Degas, Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, (1879)
File:Paul Cézanne 159.jpg|Paul Cézanne, Self-Portrait, (1881)
File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Umbrellas, ca. 1881-86.jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir -The Umbrellas(1883)
File:Claude Monet, The Water-Liliy Pond (National Gallery, London).JPG|Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond, (1899)
Image:GoldCalf.jpg|Nicolas Poussin- The Adoration of the Golden Calf, (1633–1634)
File:Dominique Ingres - Mme Moitessier.jpg|Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Madame Moitessier, 1856
File:DelarocheLadyJaneGrey.jpg|Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833
Image:Claude Lorrain 002.jpg|Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672
;German Paintings
File:Albrecht Dürer - Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70.jpg|Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70, (1497)
File:Albrecht Altdorfer - Landschaft mit einem Steg.jpg|Albrecht Altdorfer, Landscape with Path, c. (1516)
File:Holbein-erasmus.jpg|Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, (1523)
File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Amor beklagt sich bei Venus (National Gallery, London).jpg|Lucas Cranach the Elder, Cupid complaining to Venus, (1525)
File:Adam Elsheimer - St Paul at Malta - WGA7504.jpg|Adam Elsheimer, St. Paul at Malta, c. (1600)
File:Caspar David Friedrich - Winterlandschaft (London).jpg|Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape, (1811)
Image:Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld- Ruth im Feld des Boaz.jpg|Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Ruth in Boaz's Field, (1828)
File:Albrecht Dürer 012.jpg|Albrecht Dürer, St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1495, oil on panel,
;Italian Paintings
File:San Romano Battle (Paolo Uccello, London) 01.jpg|Paolo Uccello - The Battle of San Romano (1438–40)
Image:Venus and Mars National Gallery.jpg|Sandro Botticelli - Venus and Mars (1485)
Image:MICHELANGELO - Manchester Madonna.JPG|Michelangelo - The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels (the Manchester Madonna) (1497)
Image:Giovanni_Bellini,_portrait_of_Doge_Leonardo_Loredan.jpg|Giovanni Bellini - The Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501-4)
Image:Pope_Julius_II.jpg|Raphael - Portrait of Julius II (1511)
Image:Titian Bacchus and Ariadne.jpg|Titian - Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–23)
Image:The Family of Darius before Alexander by Paolo Veronese 1570.jpg|Paolo Veronese - The Family of Darius before Alexander (1565–70)
Image:Jacopo Tintoretto 011.jpg|Tintoretto - The Origin of the Milky Way (1575)
File:1602-3 Caravaggio,Supper at Emmaus National Gallery, London.jpg|Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - The Supper at Emmaus (1601)
File:Canaletto - The Stonemason's Yard.jpg|Canaletto - The Stonemason's Yard(1726–30)
Image:Caravaggio - Boy Bitten by a Lizard.jpg|Caravaggio - Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1596)
File:TitianDianaCallistoEdinburgh.jpg|Titian, Diana and Callisto, 1556–9
;Spanish Paintings
Image:El Greco 016.jpg|El Greco, Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple, (1600)
File: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)
Image:Cristo en casa de Marta y María, by Diego Velázquez.jpg|Diego Velázquez, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, (1618)
Image:Francisco de Zurbarán 009.jpg|Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Francis in Meditation (1639) of Martha and Mary, (1618)
Image:Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities - 1681-82.jpg|Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities, (The Pedroso Murillo) (1675–82)
File:El hechizado por fuerza, por Goya.jpg|Francisco Goya, The Lamp of the Devil, (1797-1798)
Image:Doña Isabel Cobos de Porc by Francisco Goya.jpg|Francisco Goya, Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel, (1805)
File:Duke of Wellington 2.jpg|Francisco Goya, Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, 1812–14
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