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Press releases

Five-metre mud work made on site by Sir Richard Long at the top of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing staircase

Issued April 2025

The Triumph of Art: Jeremy Deller commission for Bicentenary - details of programme for London’s Trafalgar Square and celebrations across UK revealed

Issued April 2025

A 200th birthday present for everyone : 'Pay what you wish' all day every Friday to see 'José Maria Velasco: A View of Mexico'

Issued April 2025

C C Land: The Wonder of Art : Experience the wonder of art at the National Gallery, with over seven centuries of artistic inspiration in three dimensions

Issued April 2025

Wake up to the wonder of art and see the transformed Sainsbury Wing – be the first to sleep with the treasures of the National Gallery

Issued April 2025

Edwin Austin Abbey: By the Dawn’s Early Light

Issued April 2025

Ming Wong is the National Gallery’s 2025 Artist in Residence

Issued March 2025

Digital experiences at the National Gallery: A glimpse at the future

Issued March 2025

National Gallery anniversary attracts 4.7 million worldwide visits in 2024 and over 159 million digitally

Issued March 2025

Millet: Life on the Land

Issued October 2024

The National Gallery announces new restaurant by Giorgio and Plaxy Locatelli, in partnership with Searcys

Issued March 2025

The National Gallery’s 'The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil' by Monet travelling the UK in 2025-27

Issued February 2025

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning marks National Gallery’s commitment to art for all

Issued January 2025

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers with 334,589 visits is the most popular ever ticketed exhibition in National Gallery history

Issued January 2025

Wright of Derby: From the Shadows

Issued January 2025

The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making

Issued January 2025

National Gallery Van Gogh exhibition to open 24 hours as art lovers follow in footsteps of Freud and Hockney as rare night-time visitors

Issued January 2025

José María Velasco: A View of Mexico

Issued December 2024

C C Land: The Wonder Of Art: National Gallery prepares for once-in-a-generation redisplay of the collection

Issued December 2024

2024 National Gallery Artist In Residence Katrina Palmer:The Touch Report

Issued November 2024

The National Gallery Year Ahead Round Up 2024 and 2025

Issued October 2024

National Gallery’s first exhibition of Neo-Impressionists brings Seurat’s Cancan Dancers to the UK for first time: Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists

Issued October 2024

The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making

Issued October 2024

Update on security at the National Gallery

Issued October 2024

National Gallery painting to visit Parliament, marking 200 years of the Act that established the Gallery

Issued October 2024

Millet: Life on the Land

Issued October 2024

Discover the Victorian family who grew up in the National Gallery, and other lesser-known histories, as NG Stories launches this week

Issued September 2024

Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome

Issued September 2024

New prints by Nalini Malani and Céline Condorelli’s artwork for reclining visitors go to Bath and Exeter following National Gallery exhibitions

Issued September 2024

The National Gallery acquires major painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Issued July 2024

National Gallery UK touring exhibitions set to reach 1 million visitors

Issued July 2024

First exhibition of National Gallery Bicentenary year closes with record number of visitors: 'The Last Caravaggio' is the 3rd most visited exhibition of the last 10 years

Issued July 2024

National Gallery’s Bicentenary fundraising campaign closes with £5m grant from the Julia Rausing Trust

Issued July 2024

Discover Constable and The Hay Wain

Issued July 2024

José María Velasco: A View of Mexico

Issued July 2024

Following a 14-month restoration, Rubens’s ‘The Judgement of Paris’ returns to public display with new discoveries revealed

Issued June 2024

Take One Picture: Children adopt endangered tiger after National Gallery programme inspires creative responses to Rousseau’s 'Surprised!'

Issued June 2024

Philadelphia’s 'Sunflowers' to travel from the United States for the first time for the National Gallery to recreate Van Gogh’s idea of a triptych

Issued June 2024

National Gallery façades newly cleaned and resplendent

Issued June 2024

Creative Collaborators announced for 200 Creators, National Gallery’s Bicentenary digital programme

Issued April 2024

National Gallery acquires its first painting by Eva Gonzalès

Issued April 2024

Celebrate the National Gallery’s 200th birthday with Jools Holland and friends, light shows and a weekend of activities: Free tickets available for Members from today and to everyone in one week

Issued April 2024

Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look

Issued May 2024

Rare paintings from 14th-century Italy reunited after centuries apart for National Gallery 200th-anniversary exhibition: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300‒1350

Issued April 2024

'Discover Degas & Miss La La' will debut never-before-seen sketches by Degas and photographs of Miss La La

Issued March 2024

The National Gallery acquires Poussin’s 'Eucharist' showing the Last Supper from his first cycle of pictures of the seven sacraments

Issued March 2024

NG Stories brings history to life with the stories of people who have shaped the Gallery over 200 years

Issued March 2024

National Gallery Bicentenary begins with 4 million visits globally in 2023 including just under 1 million on its Asia tour and over 60 million digital and social views

Issued February 2024

The National Gallery announces fourth partner for Asia Tour: CHIMEI Museum, Tainan, Taiwan 2 May – 1 September 2024

Issued February 2024

Excavations underneath National Gallery reveal Saxon London’s urban centre extended further west than previously known

Issued February 2024

National Gallery announces creative partners for Bicentenary Art Road Trip, 100 days before travelling art studio takes to the road

Issued January 2024

The Last Caravaggio

Issued January 2024

Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome

Issued January 2024

Painting by Abraham Bloemaert acquired by the National Gallery

Issued December 2023

The National Gallery, London Exhibitions 2024

Issued November 2023

'Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London' opens at Hong Kong Palace Museum on 22 November 2023

Issued November 2023

National Gallery and Art Fund Appoint Four Assistant Curators to work with UK-wide Partners for Bicentenary Jeremy Deller Commission

Issued November 2023

Katrina Palmer is the National Gallery’s 2024 Artist in Residence

Issued October 2023

200 days before 200th birthday, the National Gallery shares details of National Treasures exhibitions across the UK

Issued October 2023

Discover Constable & The Hay Wain

Issued October 2023

Painting by Rousseau from the Simon Sainsbury Bequest acquired by the National Gallery

Issued October 2023

The National Gallery stages major Vincent van Gogh exhibition for 200th anniversary – its first ever: Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers

Issued October 2023

The Last Caravaggio

Issued October 2023

The National Gallery announces third partner for Asia Tour: Hong Kong Palace Museum 22 November 2023 – 11 April 2024

Issued September 2023

The Triumphs of Caesar

Issued September 2023

Encounter a forgotten Renaissance master in the first-ever career-spanning exhibition at the National Gallery : 'Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed'

Issued September 2023

National Gallery searches for 200 Digital Creators to celebrate Bicentenary: 200 Creators will take the Gallery’s 200th birthday worldwide, with digital content launching in July 2024 spearheading a summer of creativity

Issued September 2023

The Triumph of Art: Jeremy Deller commission for Bicentenary announces partners in each nation of the UK: The project marks the National Gallery’s first ever partnership with an art school and a performing arts organisation

Issued August 2023

National Gallery wins new visitors as £1 Friday nights are set to stay for Frans Hals Exhibition

Issued August 2023

Summer on the Square: National Gallery’s landmark free festival of creativity and community returns

Issued July 2023

Discover Degas & Miss La La

Issued June 2023

National Gallery Visits returns, touring Constable’s 'The Cornfield' all over England

Issued June 2023

The National Gallery joins Van Gogh Europe

Issued June 2023

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals

Issued June 2023

Reclining visitors to become part of a National Gallery artwork in huge new textile ceiling by artist in residence

Issued May 2023

Take One Picture: Children inspired by Claude-Joseph Vernet's 'A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas'

Issued May 2023

Newly acquired 'Saint Bartholomew' by Bernardo Cavallino to go on display at National Gallery

Issued April 2023

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden

Issued April 2023

The National Gallery announces second partner for Asia Tour : National Museum of Korea, 2 June ‒ 9 October 2023

Issued February 2023

Legacy of Stockton French teacher allows National Gallery to purchase first Max Pechstein painting

Issued February 2023

National Gallery announces 12 partner venues across the UK receiving a ‘National Treasure’ loan for Bicentenary celebration

Issued February 2023

Saint Francis of Assisi

Issued February 2023

The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance

Issued December 2022

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art

Issued December 2022

'Portrait of Algernon Moses Marsden' saved for the nation by the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery

Issued December 2022

Following three-year restoration, Piero’s 'Nativity' returns to public display for Christmas : with long-standing mysteries answered

Issued December 2022

National Gallery secures resolution to grant planning permission for suite of capital projects coinciding with the Gallery’s Bicentenary

Issued November 2022

Discover Liotard's 'The Lavergne Family Breakfast'

Issued December 2022

SP Lohia Foundation announced as leading philanthropic supporter of the National Gallery’s Modern and Contemporary Programme 2022–3

Issued November 2022

Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed

Issued November 2022

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different

Issued November 2022

Fruits of the Spirit: A new virtual exhibition and in-person collection trail exploring sacred art and its relation to today’s world will open on 5 December

Issued November 2022

The National Gallery announces Asia Tour: First venue is Shanghai Museum from 17 January 2023

Issued November 2022

National Gallery exhibitions 2023

Issued November 2022

National Gallery acquires first Ferdinand Hodler painting in an English public collection with daring alpine landscape

Issued October 2022

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals: The 'Laughing Cavalier' is loaned for the first time to the largest Frans Hals exhibition for 30 years

Issued October 2022

Friday night visitors to pay what they wish for the National Gallery’s Lucian Freud exhibition

Issued September 2022

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Lucian Freud: New Perspectives

Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès

Issued August 2022

Céline Condorelli is the National Gallery’s 2023 Artist in Residence

Issued July 2022

Two new acquisitions go on display at the National Gallery : Paintings by Veronese and Lo Spagna are now part of the national collection, thanks to the Acceptance in Lieu scheme

Issued July 2022

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden

Issued July 2022

Curate your own art collection as a keeper of paintings : National Gallery creates immersive experience for families on Roblox

Issued July 2022

Turner on Tour: Prized Turner paintings come back to Britain for the first time in a century

Issued March 2022

Summer on the Square: A free festival of immersive art, creativity and community

Issued July 2022

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Lucian Freud: New Perspectives

Issued July 2022

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Lucian Freud: New Perspectives

Artist Nalini Malani redefines the moving image in an immersive 40-metre animation panorama that shows new ways of seeing famous paintings: The first-ever National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship exhibition will open at the Holburne Museum, Bath, in October

Issued July 2022

NG200 'The Alchemist's Feast' at the National Gallery

Issued June 2022

National Gallery announces Bicentenary plans: NG200 – Bringing people and paintings together

Issued June 2022

Saint Francis of Assisi

Issued May 2022

Cézanne, Klimt, Mondrian, Picasso - new exhibition brings together for the first time the radical art of European cities from 1886 to 1914 : After Impressionism

Issued May 2022

An Old Woman, ‘The Ugly Duchess’ reinterpreted and conserved for exhibition on Renaissance Satire

Issued May 2022

New work by Artist in Residence and Venice Biennale Silver Lion winner Ali Cherri acquired by Contemporary Art Society for Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Issued May 2022

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

Issued May 2022

National Gallery and Art Fund foster future curators for UK museums - new Trainees for Bristol and Birmingham announced

Issued May 2022

The National Gallery creates first ‘downloadable’ exhibition as 30 real-life images of its paintings go on display outdoors in Cromer

Issued May 2022

Take One Picture 2022: Orazio Gentileschi, 'The Finding of Moses' (early 1630s)

Issued May 2022

The National Gallery becomes the new home of Articulation

Issued March 2022

2021 National Gallery Artist in Residence: Ali Cherri: If you prick us, do we not bleed?

Issued March 2022

Turner on Tour: Prized Turner paintings come back to Britain for the first time in a century

Issued March 2022

The National Gallery reveals initial proposals for NG200 project as public consultation starts

Issued February 2022

Issued February 2022

Picasso Ingres: Face to Face

Issued February 2022

The National Gallery’s Patron HRH The Prince of Wales visits 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist' and 'Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery: The Prelude'

Issued February 2022

The National Gallery Masterpiece Tours

Issued February 2022

2022 and 2023 Tour dates announced

Three new Trustees appointed to National Gallery Board

Issued February 2022

Research reveals the many hidden faces of Eva Gonzales as new National Gallery exhibition announced

Issued January 2022

National Gallery reunites Veronese painting with Italian church for the first time in 200 years in digital exhibition : Virtual Veronese tickets on sale

Issued January 2022

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Raphael

Issued January 2022

Gainsborough’s Blue Boy opens at the National Gallery on the 100th anniversary of its last presentation in the UK

Issued January 2022

National Gallery reunites Veronese painting with Italian church for the first time in 200 years in digital exhibition : Virtual Veronese

Issued December 2021

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

Issued January 2022

Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery: The Prelude

Issued November 2021

The National Gallery and Art Fund announce museum partners in Birmingham and Bristol in search for new curator talent : 2022-23 Curatorial Traineeships supported by Art Fund with the assistance of the Vivmar Foundation

Issued October 2021

John Booth appointed as Chair of the National Gallery's Board of Trustees

Issued September 2021

Major Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Gallery for artist’s centenary in autumn 2022: The Credit Suisse Exhibition Lucian Freud: New Perspectives

Issued August 2021

National Gallery painting goes on display at Belfast’s Portview Trade Centre for 'Jan van Huysum Visits' (11–17 August 2021)

Issued August 2021

Picasso Ingres: Face to Face

Issued August 2021

National Gallery painting goes on display in The Walled Garden Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub in Perth, as part of 'Jan van Huysum Visits' (31 July – 8 August 2021)

Issued July 2021

National Gallery to acquire Sir Thomas Lawrence’s ‘The Red Boy’ for the Nation

Issued July 2021

Poussin and the Dance

Issued July 2021

The National Gallery appoints Selldorf Architects-led design team to work on NG200 project

Issued July 2021

The National Gallery brings art outdoors with a pop-up of over 20 life-sized replicas of the Nation’s Favourite Paintings and free community art sessions in Trafalgar Square

Issued July 2021

Historic courtyard in the National Gallery transformed into seven-floor facility for staff

Issued July 2021

Gainsborough’s masterpiece 'The Blue Boy' returns to the UK: Exactly 100 years, to the day, since it left

Issued June 2021

National Gallery painting goes on display at Lincoln food bank as part of 'Jan van Huysum Visits' (21-26 june 2021)

Issued June 2021

Masterpiece Tour Degas’s 'Hélène Rouart in her Father's Study'

Issued June 2021

National Gallery painting goes on display in Barnsley Market as part of 'Jan van Huysum Visits' (15–20 June 2021)

Issued June 2021

Dates confirmed for the National Gallery's major Raphael exhibition

Issued June 2021

Jan van Huysum Visits: Great Yarmouth (1–6 June 2021)

Issued May 2021

Statement from the National Gallery - 22 May 2021

Issued May 2021

Statement from the National Gallery - 22 May 2021

First object allocated to two collections under Acceptance In Lieu – National Gallery and Barber Institute of Fine Arts acquire Lovis Corinth portrait

Issued May 2021

Jan van Huysum Visits: The National Gallery brings Dutch Masterpiece to six unusual locations across the nation

Issued May 2021

The National Gallery to reopen on Monday 17 May

Issued May 2021

Take One Picture 2021: Paolo Uccello, 'Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano'

Issued May 2021

The Director's Choice, a new virtual exhibition

Issued May 2021

The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour Chardin's 'The House of Cards'

Issued May 2021

National Gallery’s immersive exhibition of painting in close-up goes online for Easter after lockdown closure : 'Sensing the Unseen: Step into Gossaert’s ‘Adoration’, mobile edition'

Issued April 2021

Conservation treatment and technical analysis reveal that 'The triumph of Silenus', long considered a copy, is Nicolas Poussin’s lost original

Issued April 2021

The National Gallery acquires significant 17th-century Dutch portrait by Isaack Luttichuys

Issued April 2021

The National Gallery announces six shortlisted design teams for its NG200 plans

Issued April 2021

Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited

Issued March 2021

Monet and Gainsborough in one of National Gallery's largest loans to a UK gallery as Southampton exhibition reveals 92-year collecting partnership: Creating a National Collection: The Partnership Between Southampton City Art Gallery and the National Gallery, London

Issued March 2021

New partnership agreed between the National Gallery and Hugh Lane Gallery

Issued February 2021

Artworks by schoolchildren from the National Gallery’s 'Take One Picture' exhibition to be shown on outdoor screens - thanks to the generous support of Ocean Outdoor

Issued February 2021

400-year-old Rubens masterpiece unveiled after extensive conservation work

Issued February 2021

The National Gallery announces NG200 plans

Issued February 2021

Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery: The Prelude

Issued February 2021

The National Gallery’s top 20 most viewed paintings online

Issued February 2021

Ali Cherri is the National Gallery’s 2021 Artist in Residence

Issued January 2021

The National Gallery remains open online with wide-ranging digital programme

Issued January 2021

National Gallery to reopen on 2 December: Extended 'Artemisia' opening hours

Issued November 2020

New display by 2020 National Gallery Artist in Residence: Rosalind Nashashibi and 25th annual 'Take One Picture' exhibition also open

Conversations with God: Jan Matejko’s Copernicus

Issued November 2020

New online Curator’s Tour of 'Artemisia' launched

Issued November 2020

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist

Issued November 2020

National Gallery announces Digital Partnership with NIKON UK 2020–2021

Issued November 2020

Poussin and the Dance

Issued January 2021

Theresa Lola commissioned by National Gallery to write a poem for new digital exhibition of Christmas painting

Issued November 2020

London Philharmonic Orchestra plays in National Gallery in Covid lockdown tribute to Second World War concerts

Issued October 2020

Issued September 2020

Sensing the Unseen: Step into Gossaert's 'Adoration'

Issued September 2020

Castles: Paintings from the National Gallery, London

Issued September 2020

Impressionist Decorations: The Birth of Modern Décor

Issued August 2020

Take One Picture 2020

Issued August 2020

The Duchess of Cornwall visits the National Gallery

Issued July 2020

National Gallery extends opening hours from 22 July

Issued July 2020

New dates announced for postponed Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition: Artemisia opens 3 October 2020

Issued July 2020

The National Gallery acquires painting by Camille Pissarro

Issued July 2020

Room 32 reopens to the public after a 21-month refurbishment

Issued July 2020

The Nation’s Gallery, open and ready when you are : National Gallery to reopen on 8 July

Issued June 2020

Artist Nalini Malani receives the first National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship with Art Fund

Issued June 2020

Sunflowers out of quarantine: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London to open in Tokyo on 18 June

Issued June 2020

The National Gallery acquires its first painting by Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla

Issued June 2020

New art installation reveals the sounds of colour in paintings as National Gallery X commissions virtual responses to coronavirus

Issued June 2020

Titian: Love, Desire, Death extended at the National Gallery

Issued May 2020

The National Gallery acquires three significant 18th-century pictures

Issued May 2020

The Nation’s Gallery is now on the nation’s streets - thanks to the generous support of Ocean Outdoor

Issued May 2020

The National Gallery and Art Fund foster new museum talent: 2019-21 Curatorial Traineeships supported by Art Fund with the assistance of the Vivmar Foundation

Issued May 2020

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of VE Day – Friday 8 May 2020: The inspiring role of the National Gallery in wartime

Issued May 2020

The National Gallery invites its online visitors to celebrate doctors, healers and carers through its paintings

Issued April 2020

Visitors asked to picture ‘staying in’ as National Gallery’s new digital programme brings art to the home during closure

Issued April 2020

Tell the Easter story through National Gallery paintings

Issued April 2020

National Gallery, London - coronavirus update

Issued March 2020

Artemisia postponed

Issued March 2020

Holbein’s Henry VIII and The Ambassadors go on rare public display together as more National Portrait Gallery loans announced

Issued March 2020

'Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London', postponed

Issued February 2020

The opening of 'Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London' at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo will be postponed as a result of the Japanese Government's advice to close its national museums as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2020

Issued February 2020

Lord Hall appointed Chair of the National Gallery’s Board of Trustees

Issued January 2020

Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age

Issued January 2020

A Christmas present for the Nation – Orazio saved

Issued December 2019

The National Gallery 2020 spring and summer exhibitions

Issued December 2019

The National Gallery 2019-20 Italian art exhibitions

Issued November 2019

Issued December 2019

Titian: Love, Desire, Death

Issued November 2019

The National Gallery launches public appeal to save Orazio Gentileschi's 'The Finding of Moses' for future generations

Issued November 2019

National Gallery audio tour tackles mental health myths

Issued October 2019

Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist

Issued October 2019

Castles: Paintings from the National Gallery, London

Issued October 2019

The National Gallery 2020 autumn exhibition: The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Raphael

Issued September 2019

National Gallery and King’s College London launch new research partnership ‘National Gallery X’ to investigate the ‘gallery of the future’

Issued September 2019

Rosalind Nashashibi announced as 2020 National Gallery Artist in Residence : in a new collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society

Issued September 2019

National Gallery reveals images of ‘abandoned’ angel and Christ underneath The Virgin of the Rocks, ahead of ground-breaking new Leonardo experience this autumn

Issued August 2019

Acquired for the nation - the National Gallery allocated Bonington’s 'On the Seine - Morning' under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme

Issued August 2019

Conservation revealed: 'The Virgin and Child with Saints' by Giovanni Martini da Udine

Issued August 2019

An Italian altarpiece will go on display today (Friday 2 August) for the first time in more than a hundred years, following a seven-year conservation treatment – one of the longest and most complex in the history of the National Gallery.

Young Bomberg and the Old Masters

Issued July 2019

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Gauguin Portraits

Issued July 2019

Joint statement: National Gallery and the “NG27”

Issued June 2019

After an outstanding tenure Hannah Rothschild CBE to step down as Chair of Trustees

Issued June 2019

Artemisia Visits... HMP Send

Issued July 2019

Leonardo’s Legacy: Francesco Melzi and the Leonardeschi

Issued May 2019

Artemisia Visits … Sacred Heart Catholic High School

Issued May 2019

The National Gallery 2020 spring exhibition

Issued May 2019

The National Gallery 2020 spring exhibitions

Issued May 2019

Artemisia Visits … Pocklington Group Practice

Issued April 2019

Take One Picture

Issued April 2019

Bartolomé Bermejo

Issued March 2019

Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery

Issued March 2019

New works by the Irish-born, American-based contemporary artist Sean Scully (b.1945) will be unveiled as part of a major exhibition at the National Gallery this spring.

Artemisia Visits... Glasgow Women's Library

Issued March 2019

Artemisia Gentileschi’s 'Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria' goes on display for International Women’s Day

National Gallery acquires new Renaissance master painting

Issued February 2019

Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light

Issued February 2019

Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life

Issued February 2019

National Gallery paintings tour to Japan for the first time

Issued January 2019

Rachel Maclean: The Lion and The Unicorn

Issued November 2018

The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2019

Issued November 2018

Contemporary artists at the National Gallery: 2018–19

Issued November 2018

The National Gallery summer and autumn exhibitions 2019

Issued October 2018

National Gallery receives major donation to transform its setting of Caravaggio and 17th-century Italian paintings

Issued October 2018

Landseer's Monarch of the Glen

Issued October 2018

Lorenzo Lotto Portraits

Issued September 2018

Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne

Issued July 2018

The National Gallery acquires Artemisia Gentileschi Self Portrait

Issued July 2018

Mantegna & Bellini

Issued June 2018

The National Gallery 2018 autumn exhibitions

Issued June 2018

The National Gallery 2019 spring exhibitions

Issued May 2018

Two new paintings now on display at the National Gallery

Issued April 2018

Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire

Issued March 2018

Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire

Issued March 2018

Letter to The Sunday Times from the Director of the National Gallery, 18 March 2018

Issued March 2018

Take One Picture 2018

Issued March 2018

Manod: The Nation’s Treasure Caves

Issued February 2018

Murillo: The Self Portraits

Issued January 2018

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture

Issued January 2018

A Christmas present for the nation

Issued December 2017

The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2018

Issued December 2017

Celebrate the festive season at the National Gallery and take part in our 'gold' themed activities and events

Issued November 2017

National Gallery and Art Fund foster new museum talent: Announcing the 2017–19 Curatorial Traineeships

Issued October 2017

Lake Keitele: A Vision of Finland

Issued October 2017

National Gallery and the British Public are rightful owners of Portrait of Greta Moll

Issued September 2017

National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts and National Gallery announce unprecedented collaboration to stage exhibitions by artist Tacita Dean

Issued September 2017

Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael about 1500

Issued September 2017

Saved for the nation

Issued August 2017

Monochrome: Painting in Black and White

Issued September 2017

Van Gogh Sunflowers Facebook Live

Issued August 2017

Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites

Issued July 2017

Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell

Issued July 2017

National Gallery 2018 Exhibitions

Issued June 2018

Take One Picture 2017

Issued May 2017

Giovanni da Rimini: A 14th-Century Masterpiece Unveiled

Issued April 2017

Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic

Issued March 2017

Statement on Gainsborough incident

Issued March 2017

The National Gallery’s Royal Patron HRH The Prince of Wales visits The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Michelangelo & Sebastiano

Issued March 2017

Exceptional loan announced

Issued March 2017

First new gallery in 26 years opens

Issued February 2017

Outstanding fundraising campaign does not secure Pontormo for the nation

Issued February 2017

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Michelangelo & Sebastiano

Issued January 2017

Cagnacci's Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum

Issued November 2016

Brian Sewell bequeaths painting to the National Gallery

Issued November 2016

Nationwide tour announced for George Shaw: My Back to Nature

Issued October 2016

Australia's Impressionists

Issued October 2016

Dancing Museums

Issued August 2016

Five European dance organisations and eight internationally renowned museums explore new ways of interacting with audiences

Maíno's Adorations: Heaven on Earth

Issued August 2016

Beyond Caravaggio

Issued August 2016

National Gallery 2017 Exhibitions

Issued June 2016

Bosschaert masterpiece brought to life with real flowers

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

Two landscapes generously gifted to the National Gallery

Issued May 2016

Painters' Paintings

Issued May 2016

National Gallery's iconic work featured on new Bank of England £20 note

Issued April 2016

Take One Picture

Issued April 2016

Acquired for the nation

Issued April 2016

George Shaw: My Back to Nature

Issued March 2016

Issued March 2016

HRH The Prince of Wales becomes National Gallery’s first Royal Patron

Issued March 2016

HRH The Prince of Wales becomes the 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

Mark Getty awarded honorary knighthood

Issued January 2016

First work by pioneering Danish artist enters UK public collection

Issued December 2015

National Gallery and Art Fund Curatorial Trainees Programme continues to foster new talent

Issued December 2015

Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art

Issued December 2015

Venues announced for Masterpiece Tour 2016

Issued October 2015

National Gallery 2016 Exhibitions

Issued September 2015

The National Gallery announces exceptional loans to Goya exhibition

Issued September 2015

Business Archives Council awards grant to National Gallery Research Centre

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

The National Gallery displays Australian art for the first time

Issued September 2015

Francisco de Goya's 'Portrait of Dona Isabel de Porcel': A Question of Attribution

Issued September 2015

Goya: The Portraits

Issued July 2015

The National Gallery announces partnership with Securitas

Issued July 2015

Saved for the nation

Issued July 2015

Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece

Issued July 2015

Art in Dialogue: Duccio | Caro

Issued June 2015

Take One Picture

Issued May 2015

Issued April 2015

Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames

Issued March 2015

New displays and loans to enjoy for free at the National Gallery this Easter

Issued March 2015

National Gallery gifted rare Early Renaissance painting

Issued March 2015

Gabriele Finaldi announced as new Director of the National Gallery

Issued March 2015

We are delighted to announce that Dr Gabriele Finaldi has been appointed Director of the National Gallery.

Gabriele Finaldi appointed Director of the National Gallery

Issued March 2015

After 3 months and 244 donations, Frame Appeal hits its target

Issued February 2015

More than a quarter of a million people visit 'Rembrandt: The Late Works'

Issued February 2015

National Gallery wins Wohl Arts Competition award

Issued January 2015

National Gallery and Art Fund curatorial traineeships programme continues to foster new talent

Issued January 2015

Inventing Impressionism

Issued December 2014

A Christmas present for the nation

Issued December 2014

Hannah Rothschild appointed Chair of the National Gallery's Board of Trustees

Issued December 2014

6000 new tickets for 'Rembrandt: The Late Works' go on sale today

Issued December 2014

Art teacher's gift helps National Gallery acquire rediscovered Wilkie painting

Issued November 2014

The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour

Issued November 2014

Just 10 days before it opens - exceptional new loan to 'Rembrandt: The Late Works' announced

Issued October 2014

National Gallery 2015 Exhibitions

Issued September 2014

Maggi Hambling: Walls of Water

Issued August 2014

The National Gallery introduces free Wi-Fi

Issued August 2014

Rembrandt: The Late Works

Issued June 2014

Dr Nicholas Penny to Retire as Director of the National Gallery

Issued June 2014

George Shaw Named New National Gallery Associate Artist

Issued June 2014

Refurbished Gallery Reopens to the Public

Issued June 2014

Take One Picture: Discover, Imagine, Explore: Children inspired by Georges Seurat

Issued May 2014

Issued May 2014

Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting

Issued April 2014

Issued March 2014

Record-breaking visitor figures for the National Gallery

Issued March 2014

Record-breaking visitor figures for the National Gallery

The National Gallery expands Research Centre through the acquisition of Agnew's archive

Issued March 2014

Hollywood stars descend on National Gallery for press conference

Issued February 2014

Hollywood stars descend upon National Gallery for new film 'The Monuments Men' press conference

The UK acquires its first ever George Bellows painting

Issued February 2014

'Men of the Docks' purchased by the National Gallery

A Christmas present for the nation

Issued December 2013

The National Gallery allocated Van Gogh's 'Head of a Peasant Woman' under the Cultural Gifts Scheme

Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance

Issued November 2013

Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice

Issued November 2013

Issued October 2013

Venues announced for Masterpiece Tour

Issued September 2013

National Gallery and Art Fund curatorial traineeships programme continues to foster new curatorial talent

Issued July 2013

The National Gallery and Art Fund launch two new curatorial traineeships in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust and York Art Gallery

National Gallery assists in the acquisition of a rare Renaissance work

Issued July 2013

The National Gallery acquires Maulbertsch oil sketch

Issued June 2013

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.

Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900

Issued June 2013

The Titian Experience: A National Gallery Festival Tour

Issued May 2013

Take One Picture – Discover, Imagine, Explore: Children Inspired by Willem Kalf

Issued April 2013

Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

Issued March 2013

The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour

Issued March 2013

Twenty-five Italian Baroque paintings enhance the collection

Issued February 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.

Artworks to be projected onto the National Gallery

Issued February 2013

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.

Lucian Freud Says Thank You to the Nation with a Corot Painting

Issued February 2013

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.

Lucian Freud Leaves Painting to the National Gallery as a Thank-You to the Nation

Issued February 2013

Michael Landy: Saints Alive

Issued January 2013

Restoration reveals hidden Titian portrait in the National Gallery Collection

Issued January 2013

Following restoration the National Gallery has re-attributed the painting 'Portrait of Girolamo, Fracastoro' to Titian.

Barocci: Brilliance and Grace

Issued December 2012

Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch

Issued November 2012

Photographic interventions in the collection

Issued November 2012

Contemporary photographs by Richard Billingham, Craigie Horsfield and Richard Learoyd are juxtaposed with paintings in the National Gallery Collection.

National Gallery Schools Education Programme ‘Take One’ Launches Across UK

Issued October 2012

Peter Coleman-Wright and Brodsky Quartet in National Gallery Concert Programme to Celebrate Dame Myra Hess

Issued August 2012

New National Gallery Allocations

Issued August 2012

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)

Rarely seen Picasso portrait goes on display at the National Gallery

Issued July 2012

National Gallery 2013 Exhibitions

Issued June 2012

In Pursuit of Art: Charles Eastlake’s Journey from Plymouth to the National Gallery

Issued May 2012

Richard Hamilton: The Late Works

Issued May 2012

Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present

Issued May 2012

New National Gallery Acquisition

Issued May 2012

Press release for New National Gallery Acquisition: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 'Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787–1869)', 1806

Take One Picture: Primary School Children Inspired by Veronese

Issued April 2012

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012

Issued April 2012

Titian's First Masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt

Issued March 2012

Inside Art: creative responses to the collection by young offenders

Issued March 2012

Titian’s 'Diana and Callisto' is secured for the public

Issued February 2012

Press release: 'Diana and Callisto secured for the public'

'Diana and Callisto' secured

Issued February 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.

Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude

Issued February 2012

Press release for 'Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude'

National Gallery 2012 Exhibitions

Issued September 2011

Press release for the 2012 exhibition programme

Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ paintings united

Issued July 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.

National collection goes online

Issued June 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.

National Gallery painting comes to life

Issued May 2011

Press release for 'National Gallery painting comes to life'

Historic collaboration between the National Gallery, London, and the Louvre

Issued May 2011

Press release: both versions of 'Virgin of the Rocks' at the National Gallery

Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

Issued May 2011

Press release for 'Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan'

Issued May 2011

Press release for Leonardo Live: the opening of Leonardo da Vinci exhibition to be broadcast live to cinemas and Sky Arts viewers

Paintings newly illuminated at the National Gallery

Issued April 2011

Press release for a new LED lighting system which is to be installed at the Gallery

Art for the Nation: Sir Charles Eastlake at the National Gallery

Issued April 2011

Press release for 'Art for the Nation'

Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500

Issued March 2011

Press release for 'Devotion by Design'

Take One Picture

Issued March 2011

Press release for 'Take One Picture'

Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection

Issued March 2011

Press release for 'Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection'

National Gallery Collaborates with Google on New Online Art Project

Issued February 2011

Press release for the Google Art Project

Inside Art – Creative Responses to the Collection by Young Offenders

Issued January 2011

Press release for Inside Art

£2 million gift from the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation

Issued January 2011

Press release announcing the gift from the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation

An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters

Issued January 2011

Press release for An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters

National Gallery acquires first work by Norwegian artist

Issued November 2010

Press release for new acquisition at the Gallery

National Gallery receives major donation for new Education Centre

Issued November 2010

Press release for gift from philanthropist Mark Pigott OBE for the Education Centre

Ageing Creatively

Issued November 2010

Press release for Ageing Creatively: Alzheimer’s Society Groups take inspiration from the National Gallery’s Old Master paintings

Jan Gossaert's Renaissance

Issued November 2010

Press release for 'Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance'

Guercino’s 'King David' and 'The Cumaean Sibyl with Putto' to be displayed together at the National Gallery

Issued November 2010

Press release for a new loan, Guercino's 'King David'

National Gallery Grant-in-Aid Allocation 2011/12 – 2014/15

Issued October 2010

Press release for the grant-in-aid to the National Gallery for the next four years starting April 2011

Out of Art into Literacy

Issued August 2010

Press release for 'Out of Art into Literacy', an exhibition showcasing primary pupils’ storytelling inspired by the National Gallery collection

National Gallery commemorates Second World War with special day of events and new online resource

Issued July 2010

Press release for the 2010 Dame Myra Hess Day and the new online archive

Exhibitions at the National Gallery 2011

Issued July 2010

Press release for the 2011 exhibition programme

Restored Leonardo masterpiece goes back on display at the National Gallery

Issued July 2010

Press release for the restoration of Leonardo's 'The Virgin of the Rocks'

Modern Perspectives

Press release for 'Modern Perspectives'

Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work

Issued June 2010

Press release for 'Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Related Work'

Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals

Issued June 2010

Press release for 'Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals'

Saved for the nation: Baroque masterpiece goes on display at the National Gallery

Issued May 2010

Press release for new loan at the Gallery, Domenichino's 'Saint John the Evangelist

'Museums at Night' at the National Gallery

Issued May 2010

Press release for 'Museums at Night' at the National Gallery: Friday 14 May, 6–9pm

Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy

Issued April 2010

Press release for 'Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy'

Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries

Issued April 2010

Press release for 'Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries'

Take One Picture

Issued March 2010

New National Gallery allocation

Issued February 2010

Press release for the new National Gallery allocation – Bosschaert: 'A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase'

Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light

Issued January 2010

Press release for 'Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light'

Inside Art: creative responses to the collection by young offenders

Issued January 2010

Press release for the Inside Art exhibition, featuring work by young offenders

Ageing Creatively with the National Gallery

Issued November 2009

Press release for Ageing Creatively with the National Gallery

Michael Landy: The new National Gallery Associate Artist

Issued July 2009

Press release for announcement of Michael Landy as latest Gallery Associate Artist

Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey

Issued November 2009

Press release for 'Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey'.

A Masterpiece Recovered: Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted

Issued November 2009

Press release for 'A Masterpiece Recovered: Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted'.

Sounds of the Gallery

Issued October 2009

Press release for the 'Sounds of the Gallery' audio tour

Issued June 2009

Press release for a special Director's event for those with specific access needs

Diana and Actaeon on display at the National Gallery

Issued September 2009

Press release for the display of 'Diana and Actaeon'

Dame Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery

Issued August 2009

Press release for Dame Myra Hess Day

National Gallery celebrates 10 Years of 'Taking Art' to young hospital patients

Issued July 2009

Press release for children's and teenagers' hospital outreach project

Exhibitions at the National Gallery 2010

Issued July 2009

Press release for the 2010 exhibition programme at the National Gallery

New National Gallery website

Issued July 2009

Press release for the redesigned and enhanced Gallery website

Kienholz: 'The Hoerengracht'

Issued July 2009

Press release for Kienholz: 'The Hoerengracht'

Titian's Triumph of Love

Issued July 2009

Press release for Titian's 'Triumph of Love' exhibition

The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600 - 1700

Issued June 2009

Press release for Sacred Made Real exhibition

Issued June 2009

Questions and answers on the aquisition of Titian's Diana and Actaeon

The Making of a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture

Issued June 2009

Press release for a special display examining the making a polychrome (painted) sculpture.

National Gallery paintings in superb detail on your iPhone

Issued June 2009

Press release for the National Gallery's downloadable iPhone application

National Gallery to launch creative arts academy for young offenders

Issued June 2009

Press release for launch of creative arts academy at the Feltham Young Offenders Institution.

London teens perform dance inspired by National Gallery collection

Issued May 2009

Press release for collaborative dance and art projects with the Royal Ballet School

Issued May 2009

Press release for Corot to Monet: A Fresh Look at Landscape from the Collection

John Cale comes to the National Gallery

Issued May 2009

Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale is to take part in a one-off discussion about the connections between music and art.

Old Masters inspire new music from young composers

Issued May 2009

Young UK musicians have their work performed in front of the National Gallery masterpiece that inspired them to write their own compositions.

Painted ladies and gents

Issued April 2009

Press release for Wimbledon College of Art's student costume parade at the National Gallery

Take One Picture

Issued April 2009

Diana and Actaeon Secured

Issued March 2009

Titian masterpiece acquired for the nation

Last chance to see once-in-a-lifetime exhibition

Issued January 2007

Press release for Last Chance to see Once-in-a-Lifetime Exhibition

Record-breaking attendance for re-display

Issued February 2007

Press release for record-breaking attendance for re-display

Charles Saumarez Smith joins the Royal Academy of Arts

Issued March 2007

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

A million visitors for 'Manet to Picasso'

Issued May 2007

Press release to announce a million visitors for 'Manet to Picasso'

Dutch Portraits: The Age Of Rembrandt And Frans Hals

Issued May 2007

Press release to announce the exhibition Dutch Portraits: The Age Of Rembrandt And Frans Hals

Scratch the Surface

Issued May 2007

Issued June 2007

Press release on The National Gallery and HP bring works of art to the streets of London

Renaissance Siena: Art for a City

Issued June 2007

Press release to announce the exhibition Renaissance Siena: Art for a City

Increased access to images and research

Issued August 2007

Press release announcing academics to benefit from increased access to National Gallery Collection images and research

Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass

Issued September 2007

Press release announcing Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass

Youth Music Week 2007

Issued October 2007

Press release anouncing Youth music week 2007

Discoveries: New Research into British Collections

Issued November 2007

Press release for the exhibition Discoveries: New Research into British Collections

The Landscape Oil Sketch

Issued December 2007

Press release for the exhibition The Landscape Oil Sketch

New Director at the National Gallery

Issued December 2007

Press release to announce the new Director at the National Gallery

Dance inspired by the Collection

Issued December 2008

Press release for the launch of a dance project with the Royal Ballet School

'Diana and Actaeon' is secured for the nation

Issued February 2009

Press release for the acquisition of 'Diana and Actaeon'

Picasso: Challenging the Past

Issued December 2008

Press release for the exhibition Picasso's Prints: Challenging the Past

The National Gallery's old masters inspire new music from young composers

Issued December 2008

Press release for composition workshop and project at the Gallery

Promoting children's emotional wellbeing

Issued December 2008

Press release for project on emotional wellbeing, working with London children

Titian's 'Diana and Actaeon' comes to London

Issued December 2008

Press release for Titian's 'Diana and Actaeon' comes to London

Exhibitions at the National Gallery 2009

Issued December 2008

Press release for the 2009 exhibition programme

Securing the Bridgewater Titians

Issued December 2008

Press release for the Bridgewater Loan Titians

Sisley in England and Wales

Issued December 2008

The Simon Sainsbury Bequest

Issued December 2008

Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian

Issued November 2008

Mark Getty appointed Chairman

Issued November 2008

Issued November 2008

Credit Suisse partnership

Issued November 2008

Take One Picture

Issued November 2008

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 'Cupid complaining to Venus'

Issued November 2008

Launch of new Renaissance catalogue by Nicholas Penny, Director

Issued November 2008

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

Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters 1891-1910

Issued November 2008

Alison Watt: Phantom

Issued November 2008