The Museum is open daily
from 10am to 6pm
and Friday until 9pm.
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square,
London WC2N 5DN
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The National Gallery was established in 1824 through the buying of 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein, an English businessman and collector. At the time of the opening, it was housed in Angerstein's former townhouse at No. 100 Pall Mall. It then moved to No. 105 Pall Mall. In 1838, the collection moved to a new building designed by William Wilkins, looking south across Trafalgar Square, where it still is today. The building was expanded in 1860, 1876, 1886, and 1975. In 1991 the Sainsbury Wing was built.
The collection comprises some 2,600 works and is regarded by many as the most representative sampling of European paintings in the world. It has the most comprehensive collection of Italian Renaissance paintings outside Italy, with works by most of the great Florentine and Venetian masters of that period. There are also impressive holdings of works by various British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Flemish painters from the 15th to the 19th century.
Georges Seurat’s painting of cancan dancers Le Chahut will go on display in the UK for the first time as a star loan in a major new exhibition at the National Gallery – its first ever devoted to the Neo-Impressionist art movement.
Showing works of art by French, Belgian and Dutch artists, painted from 1886 to the early 20th century, Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists draws from the outstanding collection of the German art collector Helene Kröller-Müller, one of the first great women art patrons of the 20th century.
The exhibition brings together over 20 works of art, including paintings, mezzotints, works on paper and objects, to examine Joseph Wright of Derby’s artistic practice and the wider context of scientific and artistic development in which he worked.