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File:Van Eyck.jpg|The Arnolfini Marriage by [[Jan van Eyck]]. | File:Van Eyck.jpg|The Arnolfini Marriage by [[Jan van Eyck]]. | ||
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File:Lorrain Embarque de Santa Úrsula.jpg|Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula by [[Claude Lorrain]]. | File:Lorrain Embarque de Santa Úrsula.jpg|Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula by [[Claude Lorrain]]. | ||
File:Rembrandt Self Portrait at the Age of 34.jpg|[[Rembrandt]], Self Portrait at the Age of 34 (detail). | File:Rembrandt Self Portrait at the Age of 34.jpg|[[Rembrandt]], Self Portrait at the Age of 34 (detail). | ||
File:Gainsborough Mr. and Mrs. Andrews.jpg|[[Thomas Gainsborough]], Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. | File:Gainsborough Mr. and Mrs. Andrews.jpg|[[Thomas Gainsborough]], Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. | ||
File:Ingres Mme Moitessier.jpg|Madame Moitessier by [[Jean Ingres|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] | File:Ingres Mme Moitessier.jpg|Madame Moitessier by [[Jean Ingres|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] | ||
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Revision as of 18:50, June 21, 2011
The National Gallery is an art gallery in London, United Kingdom. Located on Trafalgar Square, it was founded in 1824. The National Gallery houses the British collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries.
The first paintings in the National Gallery collection came from the banker and collector John Julius Angerstein. In 1856, Joseph Mallord William Turner bequeathed over 1,000 paintings, drawings and watercolors. From 1855 to 1865, the Gallery's collection of Italian painting expanded and widened in scope to become one of the best in the world. In 1871 the Gallery's collection was broadened yet further, when 77 paintings were bought from the collection of the late Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel.
Petite gallery
The Arnolfini Marriage by Jan van Eyck.
Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus.
Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula by Claude Lorrain.
Rembrandt, Self Portrait at the Age of 34 (detail).
Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews.
Madame Moitessier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
