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about 1455/65, died about 1485/95

Possibly about 1490

Throughout the month of September, we are celebrating our Membership scheme’s 10th Anniversary. To mark this moment we asked our Director, Gabriele Finaldi, to select 10 of his favourite paintings from an unmatched collection of over 2,400 works.

Conservator Jill Dunkerton tells us about the meticulous conservation of one of our favourite nativity scenes.

active early 16th century

Online extracts from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

You've sung the carols, you've sent the cards, but how well do you actually know the Nativity? Here's the original Christmas story, told through our paintings

To celebrate the Gallery's bicentenary, we are sharing online – for the first time – 200 scholarly catalogue entries, totalling 2.2 million words of academic research.