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Often referred to as the ‘painter’s painter’ due to his influence on artists through the decades, Nicolas Poussin is well represented in the National Gallery Collection.

1 www.farhi.org/wc51/wc51_416.htm. 2 For Meyer Sassoon, see the entry for Perronneau NG 6345, note 3. 3 For Violet, Mrs Fitzgerald, see ibid.

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'The Finding of Moses’ depicts an Old Testament story. This monumental painting was commissioned by King Charles I and ...

Born in Paris, the son of a grocer, Monet grew up in Le Havre. Contact with Eugène Boudin in about 1856 introduced Monet to painting from nature. He was in Paris in 1859 and three years later he ...

Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated female artist of the seventeenth century, appears in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian saint martyred in the early fourth century. She ...

Johannes Vermeer is one of the great Dutch masters, though only about 35 paintings by him are known. Born in Delft in 1632, he may have been a pupil of local history painter Leonaert Bramer. Vermeer ...

What characterises Impressionism for most people nowadays, is both the subject matter and the technique. Landscapes, and scenes from modern urban and suburban life painted in bright, pure colours are ...

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Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria was one of the most exciting additions to the collection, when it was acquired in 2018. Before it went on display, the painting ...