National Gallery London: Terms and Conditions

Website Copyright

The contents of this site, including all images and text, are protected by copyright. All material is provided for browsing and viewing purposes only. No copies of the digital images or text may be made except for personal use.

'Personal use' means non-commercial, domestic use by an individual involving the making of only single copies of each digital image.

General Copyright

The National Gallery holds the copyright for all the photographs of paintings in the permanent collection displayed on this website, and always needs to be contacted for permission when paintings are to be reproduced.

Licensing Use of Images

The National Gallery Picture Library website has been created primarily for professional image users. The Picture Library provides access to images of nearly every painting in the permanent collection of the National Gallery. The site allows easy searching, pricing, permission clearance, payment and download of images.

For some more recent works in the collection the work itself will also be in copyright. Artistic works are protected in the EU from creation for a period of the lifetime of the artist plus at least 70 years. If you wish to reproduce a work in copyright you must by law clear permission with the rights holders (usually the artist or their estate) for the artistic work, and the Gallery for the photograph.

The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) represents many artists and estates for matters of copyright in the UK.