Collection of the National Gallery, London

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Rembrandt, Belshazzar's Feast (1635).

Johannes Vermeer - A Young Woman standing at a Virginal (1670-1672).

Anthony van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles I(1637-1638).

Peter Paul Rubens, Samson and Delilah (1609-10).

Georges-Pierre Seurat, Bathers at Asnières (1884).

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers (1888).

Titian, Diana and Actaeon (1556), jointly with the National Gallery of Scotland.

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (1533).

Leonardo da Vinci - The Virgin of the Rocks (1495-1508).

Michelangelo, The Entombment (1500-1501).

Raphael, The Madonna of the Pinks (La Madonna dei Garofani) (1506-07).

Diego Velázquez, Rokeby Venus (1647-51).

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 dating from the mid-13th century to 1900, most of which are on display. This page lists some of the highlights of the collection.

[edit] Paintings highlights

Dutch School
- Gerard ter Borch - 5 paintings;
- Dirk Bouts - 4 paintings;
- Aelbert Cuyp - 11 paintings;
- Gerrit Dou - 3 paintings;
- Jan van Goyen - 10 paintings;
- Frans Hals - 8 painting;
- Meyndert Hobbema - 9 paintings;
- Pieter de Hooch - 5 paintings;
- Gabriel Metsu - 5 paintings;
- Aernout van der Neer - 9 paintings;
- Adriaen van Ostade - 4 paintings;
- Rembrandt - 20 paintings;
- Salomon van Ruysdael - 6 paintings;
- Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael - 1 painting;
- Jan Steen - 10 paintings;
- Adriaen van de Velde - 7 paintings;
- Willem van de Velde the Younger - 16 paintings;
- Vincent van Gogh - 9 paintings;
- Johannes Vermeer - 2 paintings;
- Jan Weenix - 2 paintings;
- Philip Wouwerman - 11 paintings.

English School
- John Constable - 7 paintings;
- Thomas Gainsborough - 11 paintings;
- William Hogarth - 8 paintings;
- John Hoppner - 1 painting;
- Thomas Lawrence - 2 paintings;
- Joshua Reynolds - 5 paintings;
- George Stubbs - 3 paintings;
- Joseph Wright of Derby - 2 paintings.

Flemish School
- Jan Brueghel the Elder - 3 paintings;
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder - 1 painting;
- Petrus Christus - 2 paintings;
- Jan van Eyck - 3 paintings;
- Jan Mabuse - 8 paintings;
- Quentin Matsys - 3 paintings;
- Hans Memling - 5 paintings;
- Peter Paul Rubens - 24 paintings;
- David Teniers the Younger - 15 paintings;
- Anthony van Dyck - 16 paintings.

French School
- François Boucher - 2 paintings;
- Paul Cézanne - 11 paintings;
- Philippe de Champaigne - 2 paintings;
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin - 3 paintings;
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - 25 paintings;
- Jacques-Louis David - 2 paintings;
- Edgar Degas - 15 paintings;
- Eugène Delacroix - 2 paintings;
- Hippolyte Delaroche - 4 paintings;
- Gaspard Dughet - 8 paintings;
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard - 1 painting;
- Paul Gauguin - 4 paintings;
- Claude Lorrain - 12 paintings;
- Théodore Géricault - 2 paintings;
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze - 4 paintings;
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - 5 paintings;
- Jean-Étienne Liotard - 2 paintings;
- Édouard Manet - 5 paintings;
- Claude Monet - 19 paintings;
- Camille Pissarro - 12 paintings;
- Nicolas Poussin - 18 paintings;
- Pierre Auguste Renoir - 11 paintings;
- Théodore Rousseau - 6 paintings;
- Georges-Pierre Seurat - 11 paintings;
- Claude-Joseph Vernet - 5 paintings;
- Horace Vernet - 5 paintings;
- Jean-Antoine Watteau - 1 painting.

German School
- Albrecht Dürer - 1 painting;
- Hans Holbein the Younger - 4 paintings;
- Lucas Cranach the Elder - 8 paintings;
- Johann Zoffany - 1 painting;

Italian School
- Fra Angelico - 5 paintings;
- Jacopo Bassano - 3 paintings;
- Giovanni Bellini - 8 paintings;
- Bernardo Bellotto - 1 painting;
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini - 1 painting;
- Sandro Botticelli - 8 paintings;
- Bronzino - 5 paintings;
- Canaletto - 12 paintings;
- Caravaggio - 3 paintings;
- Annibale and Ludovico Carracci - 9 paintings;
- Polidoro da Caravaggio - 1 painting;
- Correggio - 7 paintings;
- Carlo Crivelli - 10 paintings;
- Bernardo Daddi - 1 painting;
- Domenichino - 4 paintings;
- Duccio di Buoninsegna - 4 paintings;
- Domenico Fetti - 5 paintings;
- Raffaellino del Garbo - 2 paintings;
- Luca Giordano - 12 paintings;
- Giotto di Bondone - 1 painting;
- Ghirlandaio, Domenico - 1 painting;
- Francesco Guardi - 19 paintings;
- Guercino - 7 paintings;
- Leonardo da Vinci - 1 painting, 1 drawing;
- Pietro Longhi - 5 paintings;
- Lorenzo Lotto - 4 paintings;
- Andrea Mantegna - 7 paintings;
- Masaccio - 2 paintings;
- Michelangelo - 2 paintings;
- Giovanni Battista Moroni - 11 paintings;
- Giovanni Paolo Pannini - 3 paintings;
- Palma the Elder - 2 paintings;
- Parmigianino - 4 paintings;
- Piero della Francesca - 3 paintings;
- Perugino, Pietro - 4 paintings;
- Pesellino, Francesco - 4 paintings;
- Raphael, (Raffaello Sanzio) - 10 paintings;
- Reni, Guido - 7 paintings;
- Ricci, Sebastiano - 2 paintings;
- Romano, Giulio - 1 painting;
- Sarto, Andrea del - 2 paintings; 1
- Strozzi, Bernardo - 1 painting;
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista - 10 paintings;
- Tintoretto - 4 paintings;
- Titian - 10 paintings;
- Paolo Uccello - 2 paintings;
- Veronese, Paolo - 11 paintings;
- Verrio, Antonio - 1 painting;
- Zuccari, Federico - 1 painting;
- Zuccarelli, Francesco - 1 painting.

Spanish School
- Goya, Francisco - 5 paintings;
- Murillo, Bartolomé-Esteban - 6 paintings;
- Picasso, Pablo - 2 paintings;
- Velázquez, Diego - 9 paintings;
- Zurbarán, Francisco - 4 paintings.

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[edit] Paintings

Dutch Paintings

Aelbert Cuyp - Peasants and Cattle by the River Merwede (1658-60)
Meyndert Hobbema - The Avenue at Middelharnis (1689)
Pieter de Hooch - The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658)
Jan Steen - Skittle Players outside an Inn (1660-3)
Johannes Vermeer - A Young Woman seated at a Virginal (1670-2)

English Paintings

John Constable - The Hay Wain (1821)
William Hogarth - Marriage à-la-mode (1743)
Thomas Gainsborough - Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750)
J. M. W. Turner - The Fighting Temeraire (1839)
J. M. W. Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844)

Flemish Paintings

Anthony van Dyck - The Emperor Theodosius is Forbidden by Saint Ambrose to enter Milan Cathedral (1619-20)
Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Portrait (1434)
Peter Paul Rubens - The Judgement of Paris (1632-5)
David Teniers the Younger - Peasants at Archery (1645)
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (1433)
Follower of Hugo van der Goes - Virgin and Child, c 1485

French Paintings

Philippe de Champaigne - Cardinal de Richelieu (1633-40)
Claude Lorrain - Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula (1641)
Nicolas Poussin - A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term (1632-3)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Umbrellas (1881-6)
Édouard Vuillard - Madame André Wormser and her Children (1926/1927)

Italian Paintings

Giovanni Bellini - The Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501-4)
Sandro Botticelli - Venus and Mars (1485)
Canaletto - The Stonemason's Yard(1726-30)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - The Supper at Emmaus (1601)
Leonardo da Vinci - The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (1499-1500)
Michelangelo - The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels '(The Manchester Madonna) (1497)
Raphael - Portrait of Julius II (1511)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - An Allegory with Venus and Time (1754-8)
Tintoretto - The Origin of the Milky Way (1575)
Titian - Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23)
Paolo Uccello - The Battle of San Romano (1438-40)
Paolo Veronese - The Family of Darius before Alexander (1565-70)

Spanish Paintings

El Greco - Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple (1600)
Francisco Goya - Doña Isabel de Porcel (1805)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities (The Pedroso Murillo) (1675-82)
Diego Velázquez - Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1618)
Francisco Zurbarán - Saint Francis in Meditation (1639) of Martha and Mary (1618)
Francisco Goya - The lamp of the devil (1797-1798)