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National Gallery, London

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN
England

Collection details
Fine Art
Personalities
Religion
Social History

Facilities

Food: yes
Shop: yes
Guided tours: yes
Baby changing facilities: yes
Study area: yes
Wheelchair access: yes
Visual disability facilities: yes
Hearing disability facilities: yes

On the first Saturday of every month the free Guided Tours at 11.30 am and 2.30 pm are interpreted in British Sign Language (BSL).
On the last Saturday of every month the ‘Art Through Words’ programme for blind and partially-sighted visitors examines one painting in the collection in detail.

Contact details
General information (Tel) : 020 7747 2885
General information (Fax) : 020 7747 2423
E-mail : information@ng-london.org.uk
National Gallery website : www.nationalgallery.org.uk
National Gallery online shop : www.nationalgallery.co.uk

Open
Open daily 10.00-18.00, Wed 10.00-21.00

Admission charges
Admission free

Description
One of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free.

Collections description
The National Gallery’s permanent collection spans the period from about 1250 to 1900 and consists of Western European paintings.

Key artists and exhibits
'The Wilton Diptych' ; Jan van Eyck 'The Arnolfini Portrait' ; Paolo Uccello 'The Battle of San Romano' ; Piero della Francesca 'The Baptism of Christ' ; Sandro Botticelli 'Venus and Mars' ; Leonardo da Vinci 'The Virgin of the Rocks' ; Michelangelo 'The Entombment' ; Giovanni Bellini 'The Doge Leonardo Loredan' ; Raphael 'The Madonna of the Pinks' ; Jan Gossaert 'The Adoration of the Kings' ; Titian 'Bacchus and Ariadne' ; Hans Holbein the Younger 'The Ambassadors' ; Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 'The Supper at Emmaus' ; Peter Paul Rubens 'Samson and Delilah' ; Anthony Van Dyck, 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles I' ; Rembrandt 'Self Portrait at the Age of 34' ; Claude 'Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula' ; Diego Velázquez 'The Rokeby Venus' ; Johannes Vermeer 'A Young Woman standing at a Virginal' ; Canaletto 'The Stonemason's Yard' ; Thomas Gainsborough 'Mr and Mrs Andrews' ; George Stubbs 'Whistlejacket' ; François-Hubert Drouais 'Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame' ; John Constable, 'The Hay Wain' ; Joseph Mallord William Turner 'The Fighting Temeraire' ; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 'Madame Moitessier' ; Claude-Oscar Monet 'Bathers at La Grenouillère' ; Georges Seurat 'Bathers at Asnières' ; Vincent Van Gogh 'Sunflowers' ; Paul Cezanne, 'Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)'

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