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Press release for 'National Gallery paintings tour to Japan for the first timeE' (issued January 2019)
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Press release for 'Rachel Maclean: The Lion and The Unicorn' (issued November 2018)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2019' (issued November 2018)
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Press release for 'Contemporary artists at the National Gallery: 2018–19' (issued September 2018)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery summer and autumn exhibitions 2019' (issued October 2018)
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Press release for 'National Gallery receives major donation to transform its setting of Caravaggio and 17th-century Italian paintings' (issued October 2018)
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Press release for 'Landseer's Monarch of the Glen' (issued October 2018)
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Press release for 'Lorenzo Lotto Portraits' (issued September 2018)
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Press release for 'Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne' (issued July 2018)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery acquires Artemisia Gentileschi Self Portrait' (issued July 2018)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery 2018 autumn exhibitions' (issued May 2018)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery spring 2019 exhibitions' (issued May 2018)
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Press release for 'Two new paintings now on display at the National Gallery' (issued April 2018)
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Press release for 'Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire' (issued March 2018)
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Press release for 'Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire' (issued March 2018)
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Letter to the Sunday Times from the Director of the National Gallery published 18 March 2018
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Press release for 'Manod: The Nation's Treasure Caves' (issued February 2018)
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Press release for 'Murillo: The Self Portraits' (issued January 2018)
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Press release for 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture' (issued January 2018)
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Press release for 'A Christmas present for the nation' (issued December 2017)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2018' (issued December 2017)
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Press release for 'Celebrate the festive season at the National Gallery and take part in our 'gold' themed activities and events' (issued November 2017)
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Press release for 'National Gallery and Art Fund foster new museum talent: Announcing the 2017–19 Curatorial Traineeships'
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Press release for 'Lake Keitele: A Vision of Finland' (issued October 2017)
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Press release for 'Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael about 1500' (issued September 2017)
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Press release for 'Saved for the nation - Bellotto’s 'The Fortress of Königstein from the North' acquired by the National Gallery' (issued August 2017)
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Press release for 'Monochrome: Painting in Black and White' (issued August 2017)
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Press release for 'Van Gogh Sunflowers Facebook Live' (issued August 2017)
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Press release for 'Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites' (issued July 2017)
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Press release for 'Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell' (issued July 2017)
Press release for 'National Gallery 2018 Exhibitions' (issued June 2017)
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Press release for 'Giovanni da Rimini: A 14th-Century Masterpiece Unveiled' (issued April 2017)
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Press release for 'Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic' (issued March 2017)
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Press statement on Gainsborough incident (issued March 2017)
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Press release for the National Gallery’s Royal Patron HRH The Prince of Wales visit to The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Michelangelo & Sebastiano (issued March 2017)
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Press release for 'Exceptional loan announced' (issued March 2017)
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Press release for 'First new gallery in 26 years opens' (issued February 2017)
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Press release for 'Outstanding fundraising campaign does not secure Pontormo for the nation' (issued February 2017)
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Press release for 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Michelangelo & Sebastiano' (issued January 2017)
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Press release for 'Cagnacci's Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum' (issued November 2016)
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Press release for 'Brian Sewell's bequest of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, 'Maternal Affection', 1773' (issued November 2016)
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Press release for 'Nationwide tour for George Shaw: My Back to Nature' (issued October 2016)
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Press release for 'Australia's Impressionists' (issued October 2016)
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Five European dance organisations and eight internationally renowned museums explore new ways of interacting with audiences
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Press release for 'Maíno's Adorations: Heaven on Earth' (issued August 2016)
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Press release for 'National Gallery 2017 Exhibitions' (issued June 2016)
Watch how a team of 30 florists recreated Bosschaert’s ‘Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase’ over 48 hours
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Press release for 'Two landscapes generously gifted to the National Gallery' (issued May 2016)
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Press release for 'National Gallery's iconic work featured on new Bank of England £20 note' (issued April 2016)
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Press release for 'Acquired for the nation' (issued April 2016)
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Press release for 'George Shaw: My Back to Nature' (issued March 2016)
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Press release for 'HRH The Prince of Wales becomes National Gallery’s first Royal Patron' (Issued February 2016)
We are delighted to announce that HRH The Prince of Wales has become our first Royal Patron
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Press release for 'Mark Getty Awarded Honorary Knighthood' (Issued January 2016)
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Press release for 'First work by pioneering Danish artist enters UK public collection' (issued December 2015)
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Press release for 'National Gallery and Art Fund Curatorial Trainees Programme Continues to Foster New Talent' (Issued December 2015)
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Press release for 'Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art' (issued December 2015)
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Press release for 'Venues announced for Masterpiece Tour 2016' (issued October 2015)
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Press release for 'National Gallery 2016 Exhibitions' (issued September 2015)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery announces exceptional loans to Goya exhibition' (issued September 2015)
Business Archives Council awards grant to National Gallery Research Centre to catalogue the correspondence of the art dealership, Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd
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Press release for 'National Gallery displays Australian art for the first time' (issued September 2015)
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Press release for 'Francisco de Goya's 'Portrait of Dona Isabel de Porcel': A Question of Attribution' (issued September 2015)
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Press release for 'National Gallery announces partnership with Securitas' (issued July 2015)
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Press release for 'Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece' (issued July 2015)
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Press release for 'Art in Dialogue: Duccio | Caro' (issued June 2015)
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Press release for 'Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames' (issued March 2015)
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Press release for 'New displays and loans to enjoy for free at the National Gallery this Easter' (issued March 2015)
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Press release for 'National Gallery gifted rare early Renaissance painting' (issued March 2015)
We are delighted to announce that Dr Gabriele Finaldi has been appointed Director of the National Gallery.
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Press release for 'Gabriele Finaldi appointed Director of the National Gallery' (issued March 2015)
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Press release for 'After 3 months and 244 donations, Frame Appeal hits its target' (issued February 2015)
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Press release for 'More than a quarter of a million people visit 'Rembrandt: The Late Works'' (issued February 2015)
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Press release for 'National Gallery wins Wohl Arts Competition award' (issued January 2015)
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Press release for 'National Gallery and Art Fund curatorial traineeships programme continues to foster new talent' (issued January 2015)
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Press release for 'Inventing Impressionism' (issued December 2014)
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Press release for 'A Christmas present for the nation' (issued December 2014)
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Press release for 'Hannah Rothschild appointed Chair of the National Gallery's Board of Trustees' (issued December 2014)
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Press release for '6000 new tickets for 'Rembrandt: The Late Works' go on sale today' (issued December 2014)
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Press release for 'Art teacher's gift helps National Gallery acquire rediscovered Wilkie painting' (issued November 2014)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour' (issued November 2014)
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Press release for 'Just 10 days before it opens - exceptional new loan to 'Rembrandt: The Late Works' announced ' (issued October 2014)
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Press release for 'National Gallery 2015 Exhibitions' (issued September 2014)
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Press release for 'Maggi Hambling: Walls of Water' (issued August 2014)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery introduces free Wi-Fi' (issued August 2014)
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Press release for 'Rembrandt: The Late Works' (issued July 2014)
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Press release for 'Dr Nicholas Penny has today (23 June 2014) announced his intention to retire from his role as Director of the National Gallery in 2015' (issued June 2014)
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Press release for 'George Shaw Named New National Gallery Associate Artist' (issued June 2014)
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Press release for 'Room A Reopens to the Public' (issued June 2014)
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Press release for 'Take One Picture: Discover, Imagine, Explore: Children inspired by Georges Seurat' (issued May 2014)
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Press release for 'Building the Picture: Architecture in Renaissance Painting' (issued April 2014)
Record-breaking visitor figures for the National Gallery
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Press release for 'The National Gallery expands Research Centre through the acquisition of Agnew's archive' (issued March 2014)
Hollywood stars descend upon National Gallery for new film 'The Monuments Men' press conference
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Press release for 'The UK acquires its first ever George Bellows painting' (issued February 2014)
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Press release for 'A Christmas present for the nation' (issued December 2013)
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Press release for 'Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance' (issued November 2013)
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Press release for 'Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice' (issued November 2013)
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Press release announcing venues for the 2014 Masterpiece Tour (issued: September 2013)
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The National Gallery and Art Fund launch two new curatorial traineeships in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust and York Art Gallery
The National Gallery assists the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull with the acquisition of a rare early Renaissance painting by Pietro Lorenzetti.
The National Gallery is pleased to announce the acquisition of the oil sketch ‘Allegory of the Continent of Asia’ by Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796), which is the first work from this Austrian artist to enter the Collection.
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Press release for 'Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900' (issued June 2013)
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Press release for 'The Titian Experience: A National Gallery Festival Tour' (issued May 2013)
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Press release for 'Take One Picture – Discover, Imagine, Explore: Children Inspired by Willem Kalf' (issued April 2013)
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Press release for 'Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure' (issued March 2013)
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Press release for 'The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour' (issued March 2013)
Twenty-five paintings from the private collection of Sir Denis Mahon have been transferred into the National Gallery’s collection by the Art Fund.
As part of celebrations marking the completion of the Your Paintings website. large images of the nation's paintings will be projected onto the National Gallery.
The National Gallery has been allocated a Corot painting, left to the nation by late artist Lucian Freud as a thank you for welcoming his family when they arrived in the country as refugees.
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Press release for 'Lucian Freud Leaves Painting to the National Gallery as a Thank You to the Nation' (issued February 2013)
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Press release for 'Michael Landy: Saints Alive' (issued: January 2013)
Following restoration the National Gallery has re-attributed the painting 'Portrait of Girolamo, Fracastoro' to Titian.
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Press release for 'Barocci: Brilliance and Grace' (issued: December 2012)
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Press release for 'Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch' (issued November 2012)
Contemporary photographs by Richard Billingham, Craigie Horsfield and Richard Learoyd are juxtaposed with paintings in the National Gallery Collection.
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Press release for the Take One programme (issued October 2012)
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Press release for Dame Myra Hess Day 2012 (issued August 2012)
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Press release for New National Gallery Allocations, 'Samian Sibyl with a Putto' by Guercino (1591–1666) and 'La Ferté' by Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) (issued August 2012)
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Press release for the new Picasso loan (issued July 2012)
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Press release for the 2013 exhibition programme (issued June 2012)
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Press release for 'In Pursuit of Art: Charles Eastlake’s Journey from Plymouth to the National Gallery' (issued May 2012)
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Press release for 'Richard Hamilton: The Late Works' (issued May 2012)
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Press release for 'Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present' (issued May 2012)
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Press release for New National Gallery Acquisition: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 'Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787–1869)', 1806 (issued May 2012)
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Press release for 'Take One Picture' (issued April 2012)
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Press release for 'Metamorphosis: Titian 2012' (issued April 2012)
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Press release for 'Titian's First Masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt' (issued March 2012)
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Press release for 'Inside Art' (issued March 2012)
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Press release: 'Diana and Callisto secured for the public' (issued March 2012)
The National Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland are delighted to announce that Titian’s masterpiece, ‘Diana and Callisto’, has been acquired for the public.
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Press release for 'Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude' (issued February 2012)
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Press release for the 2012 exhibition programme (issued September 2011)
Launch of a website dedicated to oil paintings across UK collections, including all of the works from the National Gallery, in a partnership between the BBC and PCF.
Launch of a website dedicated to oil paintings across UK collections, including all of the works from the National Gallery, in a partnership between the BBC and PCF.
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Press release for 'National Gallery painting comes to life' (issued May 2011)
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Press release: both versions of 'Virgin of the Rocks' at the National Gallery (issued July 2011)
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Press release for 'Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' (issued May 2011)
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Press release for Leonardo Live: the opening of Leonardo da Vinci exhibition to be broadcast live to cinemas and Sky Arts viewers (issued May 2011)
Press release for a new LED lighting system which is to be installed at the Gallery (issued April 2011)
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Press release for 'Art for the Nation' (issued April 2011)
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Press release for 'Devotion by Design' (issued March 2011)
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Press release for 'Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection' (issued March 2011)
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Press release for the Google Art Project (issued February 2011)
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Press release for Inside Art (issued January 2011)
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Press release announcing the gift from the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation (issued January 2011)
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Press release for An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters (issued January 2011)
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Press release for new acquisition at the Gallery (issued November 2010)
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Press release for gift from philanthropist Mark Pigott OBE for the Education Centre (issued November 2010)
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Press release for Ageing Creatively: Alzheimer’s Society Groups take inspiration from the National Gallery’s Old Master paintings (issued November 2010)
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Press release for 'Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance' (issued November 2010)
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Press release for a new loan, Guercino's 'King David' (issued November 2010)
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Press release for the grant-in-aid to the National Gallery for the next four years starting April 2011 (issued October 2010)
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Press release for 'Out of Art into Literacy', an exhibition showcasing primary pupils’ storytelling inspired by the National Gallery collection (issued August 2010)
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Press release for the 2010 Dame Myra Hess Day and the new online archive (issued July 2010)
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Press release for the 2011 exhibition programme (issued July 2010)
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Press release for the restoration of Leonardo's 'The Virgin of the Rocks' (issued July 2010)
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Press release for 'Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Related Work' (issued June 2010)
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Press release for 'Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals' (issued June 2010)
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Press release for new loan at the Gallery, Domenichino's 'Saint John the Evangelist (issued May 2010)
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Press release for 'Museums at Night' at the National Gallery: Friday 14 May, 6–9pm (issued May 2010)
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Press release for 'Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy' (issued April 2010)
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Press release for 'Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries' (issued April 2010)
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Press release for the 2010 exhibition Take One Picture (issued March 2010)
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Press release for the new National Gallery allocation – Bosschaert: 'A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase' (issued February 2010)
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Press release for 'Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light' (issued January 2010)
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Press release for the Inside Art exhibition, featuring work by young offenders (issued January 2010)
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Press release for Ageing Creatively with the National Gallery (issued November 2009)
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Press release for announcement of Michael Landy as latest Gallery Associate Artist (issued November 2009)
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Press release for 'Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey'. (issued November 2009)
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Press release for 'A Masterpiece Recovered: Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted'. (issued November 2009)
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Press release for the 'Sounds of the Gallery' audio tour (Issued October 2009)
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Press release for a special Director's event for those with specific access needs (issued June 2009)
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Press release for the display of 'Diana and Actaeon' (issued September 2009)
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Press release for Dame Myra Hess Day (issued August 2009)
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Press release for children's and teenagers' hospital outreach project (issued August 2009)
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Press release for the 2010 exhibition programme at the National Gallery
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Press release for the redesigned and enhanced Gallery website (issued July 2009)
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Press release for Kienholz: 'The Hoerengracht' (issued July 2009)
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Press release for Titian's 'Triumph of Love' exhibition (issued July 2009)
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Press release for Sacred Made Real exhibition (issued June 2009)
Questions and answers on the aquisition of Titian's Diana and Actaeon
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Press release for a special display examining the making a polychrome (painted) sculpture. (issued June 2009)
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Press release for the National Gallery's downloadable iPhone application (issued June 2009)
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Press release for launch of creative arts academy at the Feltham Young Offenders Insitution. (issued June 2009)
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Press release for collaborative dance and art projects with the Royal Ballet School (issued May 2009)
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Press release for Corot to Monet: A Fresh Look at Landscape from the Collection (issued May 2009)
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Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale is to take part in a one-off discussion about the connections between music and art. (issued May 2009)
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Young UK musicians have their work performed in front of the National Gallery masterpiece that inspired them to write their own compositions. (issued May 2009)
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Press release for Wimbledon College of Art's student costume parade at the National Gallery (issued April 2009)
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Press release for the 2009 exhibition Take One Picture (issued April 2009)
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Press release for Last Chance to see Once-in-a-Lifetime Exhibition (issued January 2007)
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Press release for record-breaking attendance for re-display (issued February 2007)
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Press release for National Gallery statement following the announcement of Charles Saumarez Smith as the new Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts (issued March 2007)
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Press release to announce a million visitors for 'Manet to Picasso' (issued May 2007)
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Press release to announce the exhibition Dutch Portraits: The Age Of Rembrandt And Frans Hals (issued May 2007)
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Press release to announce the exhibition Scratch the Surface (issued May 2007)
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Press release on The National Gallery and HP bring works of art to the streets of London (issued June 2007)
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Press release to announce the exhibition Renaissance Siena: Art for a City (issued June 2007)
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Press release announcing academics to benefit from increased access to National Gallery Collection images and research(issued August 2007)
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Press release announcing Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass (issued September 2007)
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Press release anouncing Youth music week 2007 (issued October 2007)
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Press release for the exhibition Discoveries: New Research into British Collections (issued November 2007)
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Press release for the exhibition The Landscape Oil Sketch (issued December 2007)
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Press release to announce the new Director at the National Gallery (December 2007)
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Press release for the launch of a dance project with the Royal Ballet School (issued December 2008)
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Press release for the acquisition of 'Diana and Actaeon' (issued February 2009)
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Press release for the exhibition Picasso's Prints: Challenging the Past (issued December 2008)
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Press release for composition workshop and project at the Gallery (issued November 2008)
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Press release for project on emotional wellbeing, working with London children (issued November 2008)
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Press release for Titian's 'Diana and Actaeon' comes to London (issued October 2008)
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Press release for the 2009 exhibition programme (issued September 2008)
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Press release for the Bridgewater Loan Titians (issued August 2008)
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Press release for the exhibition Sisley in England and Wales (issued August 2008)
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Press release for the Simon Sainsbury Bequest (issued July 2008)
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Press release for the exhibition Renaissance Faces (issued June 2008)
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Press release for the appointment of Mark Getty as Chairman of the Board of Trustees (issue June 2008)
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Press release about the partnership between the National Gallery and Credit Suisse. (Issued May 2008)
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Press release for the 2008 exhibition Take One Picture (issued April 2008)
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Press release for Lucas Cranach the Elder, 'Cupid complaining to Venus' (issued March 2008)
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Press Release for the Launch of 'The National Gallery Catalogue of Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings, Volume 2: Venice 1540–1600', by the new Director, Dr Nicholas Penny (issued March 2008)
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Press Release for the exhibition Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891-1910 (issued February 2008)
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Press release for the exhibition Alison Watt: Phantom (issued January 2008)