The Masterpieces National Gallery, London (Part 1)

2. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
1434
Oil on oak
National Gallery, London

3. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
1434
Oil on oak
National Gallery, London

4. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
1434
Oil on oak
National Gallery, London

5. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
1434
Oil on oak
National Gallery, London

6. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
1434
Oil on oak
National Gallery, London

7. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
1434
Oil on oak
National Gallery, London

8. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife
1434
Oil on oak, 82 x 60 cm
National Gallery, London

9. National Gallery, London
Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces
Part 1

10. ANTONELLO da Messina
St Jerome in his Study
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 46 x 36 cm
National Gallery, London

11. ANTONELLO da Messina
St Jerome in his Study (detail)
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 46 x 36 cm
National Gallery, London

12. ANTONELLO da Messina
St Jerome in his Study (detail)
c. 1460
Oil on wood, 46 x 36 cm
National Gallery, London

13. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Christ Mocked (Crowning with
Thorns)
1495-1500
Oil on wood, 73 x 59 cm
National Gallery, London

14. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Christ Mocked (Crowning with Thorns)
(detail)
1495-1500
Oil on wood, 73 x 59 cm
National Gallery, London

15. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Christ Mocked (Crowning with Thorns)
(detail)
1495-1500
Oil on wood, 73 x 59 cm
National Gallery, London

16. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Christ Mocked (Crowning with Thorns)
(detail)
1495-1500
Oil on wood, 73 x 59 cm
National Gallery, London

17. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Christ Mocked (Crowning with Thorns)
(detail)
1495-1500
Oil on wood, 73 x 59 cm
National Gallery, London

18. BOSCH, Hieronymus
Christ Mocked (Crowning with Thorns)
(detail)
1495-1500
Oil on wood, 73 x 59 cm
National Gallery, London

19. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
The Mystical Nativity
c. 1500
Tempera on canvas, 109 x 75 cm
National Gallery, London

20. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
The Mystical Nativity (detail)
c. 1500
Tempera on canvas
National Gallery, London

21. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
The Mystical Nativity (detail)
c. 1500
Tempera on canvas
National Gallery, London

22. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
The Mystical Nativity (detail)
c. 1500
Tempera on canvas
National Gallery, London

23. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Adoration of the Kings
1564
Oil on wood, 111 x 84 cm
National Gallery, London

24. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Adoration of the Kings (detail)
1564
Oil on wood, width of detail 26 cm
National Gallery, London

25. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Adoration of the Kings (detail)
1564
Oil on wood, width of detail 26 cm
National Gallery, London

26. BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Adoration of the Kings (detail)
1564
Oil on wood, width of detail 26 cm
National Gallery, London

27. CARAVAGGIO
Supper at Emmaus
1601
Oil on canvas, 141 x 196 cm
National Gallery, London

28. CARAVAGGIO
Supper at Emmaus (detail)
1601-02
Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

29. CARAVAGGIO
Supper at Emmaus (detail)
1601-02
Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

30. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Cupid Complaining to Venus
1526-27
Oil on wood, 81 x 55 cm
National Gallery, London

31. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Cupid Complaining to Venus
(detail)
1526-27
Oil on wood, 81 x 55 cm
National Gallery, London

32. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Cupid Complaining to Venus
(detail)
1526-27
Oil on wood, 81 x 55 cm
National Gallery, London

33. DUCCIO di Buoninsegna
Annunciation (scene 1)
1308-11
Tempera on wood, 45 x 46 cm
National Gallery, London

34. DUCCIO di Buoninsegna
Annunciation (detail)
1308-11
Tempera on wood
National Gallery, London

35. DUCCIO di Buoninsegna
Annunciation (detail)
1308-11
Tempera on wood
National Gallery, London

36. BRONZINO, Agnolo
Venus, Cupid and Time (Allegory
of Lust)
1540-45
Oil on wood, 147 x 117 cm
National Gallery, London

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BRONZINO, Agnolo
Venus, Cupid and Time (Allegory
of Lust)
1540-45
Oil on wood, 147 x 117 cm
National Gallery, London

38. BRONZINO, Agnolo
Venus, Cupid and Time
(Allegory of Lust)
1540-45
Oil on wood, 147 x 117 cm
National Gallery, London
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39. The National Gallery in London is a national collection of European paintings
from c. 1300 to c. 1900 (it also includes a few earlier pictures and has recently
started to acquire works from the early 20th century).
It was founded in 1824 when the government purchased thirty-eight paintings
from the collection of John Julius Angerstein, a merchant who died in 1823.
They were first displayed in his former house at 100 Pall Mall. Further bequests
(including that of Sir George Beaumont) soon necessitated larger premises,
and the present building in Trafalgar Square, designed by William Wilkins, was
opened in 1838; the gallery shared the premises with the Royal Academy until
1869, by which time it had grown into one of the great collections of the world.
Since then there have been various enlargements of the building and in 1991 a
major extension was opened - the Sainsbury Wing, the gift of Sir John, Simon.
and Timothy Sainsbury. This wing now houses the gallery's early paintings, up
to about 1510.

40. The collection as a whole now has about 2,000 pictures. This is a fairly small
number compared with some of the great Continental galleries based on former
royal collections, but the National Gallery's paintings surpass those of any other
gallery in giving a comprehensive view of the mainstream of European painting
from Giotto to Cézanne. Best represented of all are the early Italian and Dutch
Schools.
The representation of the British School is selective because of the existence of the
Tate Gallery as a separate National Gallery of British art. Other well-known national
galleries, with their dates of foundation, are: the National Gallery of Scotland in
Edinburgh (1859); the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (1859); the National
Gallery of Ireland in Dublin (1864); the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (1880);
the National Gallery of Art in Washington (1937); and the Australian National
Gallery in Canberra (1976).