The Galleries

The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting: over 2,300 pictures dating from 1250 onwards. The collection includes all the major European schools of painting and masterpieces by many great artists. Most of the paintings in the permanent collection are on Level 2. Remaining paintings are shown in Rooms A to G on Level 0 (Room A is always open on Wednesday afternoons).

Rooms are subject to unavoidable short-term closure, without notice. Visitors wishing to see particular paintings are advised to telephone National Gallery Information on 020 7747 2885 beforehand.

Paintings from 1250 to 1500 including:

• Giovanni Bellini: 'The Doge Leonardo Loredan'
• Botticelli: 'Venus and Mars'
• Piero della Francesca: 'The Baptism of Christ'
• Uccello: 'The Battle of San Romano'
• Unknown English or French artist: 'The Wilton Diptych'
• Van Eyck: 'The Arnolfini Portrait'

Paintings from 1500 to 1600 including:

• Gossaert: 'The Adoration of the Kings'
• Holbein: 'The Ambassadors'
• Leonardo da Vinci: 'The Virgin of the Rocks'
• Michelangelo: 'The Entombment'
• Raphael: 'The Madonna of the Pinks'
• Titian: 'Bacchus and Ariadne'

Paintings from 1600 to 1700 including:

• Caravaggio: 'The Supper at Emmaus'
• Claude: 'Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula'
• Rembrandt: 'Self Portrait at the Age of 34'
• Rubens: 'Samson and Delilah'
• Van Dyck: 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles I'
• Velázquez: 'The Rokeby Venus'
• Vermeer: 'A Young Woman standing at a Virginal'

Paintings from 1700 onwards including:

• Van Gogh: 'Sunflowers'
• Turner: 'The Fighting Temeraire'
• Gainsborough: 'Mr and Mrs Andrews'
• Ingres: 'Madame Moitessier'
• Constable: 'The Hay Wain'
• Cézanne: 'Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)'
• Seurat: 'Bathers at Asnières'
• Stubbs: 'Whistlejacket'

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