Trafalgar Square, London 🇬🇧
One of the great painting museums of the world, the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square houses the UK's national collection of Western European painting from 1250 to 1900. The collection of over 2,300 works includes masterpieces by Leonardo, Raphael, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Turner, and Van Gogh. Free to enter and centrally located, it is one of London's most visited cultural institutions.
Explore 2 exhibitions on now and 2 coming soon at National Gallery.
Until Aug 23
First ever UK exhibition of Zurbarán: altarpieces, still lifes and monastic robes from Seville
"The word 'visionary' is done to death but the 17th-century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán demands it: he paints supernatural things naturally and natural things supernaturally. Space becomes different in his world, melting distance and erasing the barrier between you and the picture."
Until Sep 20
First exhibition dedicated to Waldmüller's landscapes of Austria and Sicily
"Certainly, blockbusters showing Van Gogh have the most populist pulling power, but credit is due to the National for truly seeking to provide a fuller geographic and historical view of other artists and movements. To this end, this Waldmüller showcase is the art historical equivalent of eating your greens: it may not quicken the heartbeat but is nonetheless a healthy exercise forming a fully balanced palate."
Coming SoonStarting Oct 3
40 Impressionist paintings showing Renoir at his peak, including Bal au Moulin de la Galette
Coming SoonStarting Nov 21
All nine of van Eyck's known portraits together for the first time in history
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Friday10am–9pm
Saturday10am–6pm
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EndedEnded May 31
Rare life-size Stubbs horse portrait 'Scrub' shown with key studies.
"A display case of Stubbs’s anatomical drawings are ghostly and strange. Here are spectral stallions, every, nerve, tendon and sinew turned inside out. More of these, please, and less of the tidy parade-ground pictures on the opposite wall."
EndedEnded May 10
First major exhibition of Wright of Derby's candlelight paintings at the National Gallery
"Beneath these scenes of educational family entertainment at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution there's a palpable sense of unease, or certainly a questioning, of the idea of the scientist playing God, and manipulating the rest of us in the process. These images couldn't be more painfully relevant to the age of AI, when technology appears in the process of rendering "humanity", in all senses, redundant."
EndedEnded Feb 15
Abbey's monumental study for The Hours ceiling mural, back in the UK from Yale
EndedEnded Feb 8
The Kröller-Müller's world-leading Neo-Impressionist collection: Seurat, Signac and beyond
"Yet in a coarse-grained approach to this fine-grained art style, the National Gallery struggles to tell a different story. The neo-impressionists didn’t just paint dots, they dreamed of revolution. And by the way we shouldn’t call them by the evocative nickname “pointillist” because they didn’t like it."