Another second album that features a Gallery artwork comes from Canadian band Crash Test Dummies. They released 'God Shuffled ...

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Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria was one of the most exciting additions to the collection, when it was acquired in 2018. Before it went on display, the painting ...

Renoir was one of the leading painters of the Impressionist group. He evolved a technique of broken brushstrokes and used bold combinations of pure complementary colours, to capture the light and ...

3. Detail of Hendrick Avercamp, 'A Scene on the Ice near a Town', about 1615 ...

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Find out why sunflowers represented happiness for Van Gogh. Learn how he experimented with colour to capture mood and express identity. The Sunflowers is one of the most popular paintings in the ...

Camille Pissarro was born in St Thomas (then a Danish possession) in the West Indies but lived and worked mainly in the Paris area. He visited London in 1870-71. He was an Impressionist and mainly ...

Giotto was the chief liberator of Italian painting from the Byzantine style of the early Middle Ages. He was mainly active in Florence, although he may have been trained in Rome. He also worked in ...

This is the 12th painting by Pissarro to enter the National Gallery’s collection and it has been acquired through a hybrid Acceptance in Lieu with the support of a generous legacy from James Francis ...

Moses guided the Israelites out of Egypt on their way to the Promised Land. Pharaoh and his army pursued them. When the Israelites reached the Red Sea Moses stretched out his hand and the waters ...

Pierre-Joseph-Victor de Besenval was an eminent military man and art collector. His association with the circle around Queen Marie Antoinette prompted his flight to his native Switzerland in 1789, ...