The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. The National Gallery Collection contains over 2,300 works, including many famous works, such as van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, Turner’s Fighting Temeraire and Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
Hours
Daily 10am – 6pm
Fridays 10am – 9pm
Open 361 days a year.
Closed 1 January and 24-26 December.
Admission Fees
Free of charge.
Exhibitions, generally free of charge.
Collections
- 13th- to 15th-century paintings
Duccio, Uccello, van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli, Dürer, Memling, Bellini - 16th-century paintings
Leonardo, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Holbein, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titian, Veronese - 17th-century paintings
Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velázquez, Claude, Rembrandt, Cuyp, Vermeer - 18th- to early 20th-century paintings
Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Ingres, Degas, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh
Current Exhibitions (please follow link)
Virtual Tour (please follow link)
Samson and Delilah by Rubens at the London National Gallery
