This was painted in September 1889, when Van Gogh was in the St-Rmy mental asylum, near Arles, where he was a patient from May 1889 until May 1890. It is...
This is one of Canaletto's most carefully conceived and executed large pictures, and is impressive for the control of lighting and perspectival effects, and also for the lively representation of...
This portrait is the masterpiece of Gainsboroughs early years. It was painted after his return home from London to Suffolk in 1748, soon after the marriage of Robert Andrews of...
The 98-gun ship Temeraire played a distinguished role in Nelsons victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, after which she was known as the Fighting Temeraire. The ship remained...
This is one of four paintings of sunflowers dating from August and September 1888. Van Gogh intended to decorate Gauguins room with these paintings in the so-called Yellow House that...
This painting probably evolved alongside Monet’s 'grandes décorations' in his vast purpose-built studio at Giverny. This bird’s eye view, possibly from the Japanese bridge, shows a winding path near the...
Renoirs Umbrellas shows a bustling Paris street in the rain. The composition of the painting does not focus on the centre of the picture which is a tangle of hands....
On this cushion artwork copper panel Bosschaert has painted with great delicacy and precision a bouquet of relatively common flowers - among them tulips, roses, wallflowers, daffodils and a carnation....
Claude has depicted an imaginary port at sunset. The artist painted a number of imaginary seaports (see 'Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba' and 'Seaport The site...
This work shows a group of young factory workers relaxing on the riverbank at Asnières, an industrial suburb west of Paris on the River Seine. Although he hadn’t invented his...
The exact setting for this picture has not been identified, but it probably shows the River Seine at Chatou, to the west of Paris. Renoir painted a number of 'open...
This cushion art work is on the National Gallerys extraordinary collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet charts the development of landscape painting from the late 18th century to...
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
This cushion art work is on the National Gallerys extraordinary collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet charts the development of landscape painting from the late 18th century to...
Venus and Mars is a panel painting of about 1485 by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. It shows the Roman gods Venus, goddess of love, and Mars, god of...
Whistlejacket was foaled in 1749. His most famous victory was in a race over four miles for 2000 guineas at York in August 1759. Stubbs's huge picture was painted in...
This cushion art work is on the National Gallerys extraordinary collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet charts the development of landscape painting from the late 18th century to...
The Virgin Mary sits on the lap of her mother, Saint Anne. The Christ Child blesses his cousin Saint John the Baptist (the child on the right). Leonardo also treated...
The profile was used for portraits by many painters of the Early Renaissance. Baldovinetti's representation of a lady in yellow is one of the most striking of such designs, showing...
This small, portable altarpiece is one of a handful of English panel paintings to have survived from the Middle Ages. Made for Richard II, King of England from 1377 to...