We're open until 9pm every Friday, so you can take in our collection and exhibitions after hours, and enjoy special events throughout the month Our Unexpected Views talks series continues with ...

Born in Antwerp, Jan van Kessel the Elder belonged to a dynasty of famous painters. His grandfather was Jan Brueghel the Elder, and David Teniers the Younger was his uncle. He was a pupil of the ...

From the middle decades of the 15th century, artists in Florence and its surrounding territories diversified their production to meet the desires of the region’s swelling mercantile classes. In ...

The National Gallery houses one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, and contains works by artists as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh to Rembrandt and Botticelli.

Image: Detail from Vincent Van Gogh, 'Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear', 1889 London, Courtauld Institute Gallery © Photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London Van Gogh is ...

Image: Detail from Anon, Portrait of Renoir Musée Marmottan, Paris © akg-images Renoir's work seems always to be about pleasurable occasions, and reveals no great ...

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 ...

The sitter in this portrait holds our gaze directly. She appears demure, learned and polite. She was the most powerful courtesan of her day. Who was the real Madame de Pompadour? Madame de Pompadour ...

Willem Cornelisz. Duyster was born and worked in Amsterdam. Because of the loss of the city’s guild records, his early career remains mysterious. He may have trained with Pieter Codde, and it is ...

Cornelis Cornelisz. was born in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Gillis Congnet in Antwerp for a year, but afterwards was active in Haarlem. He was a leading figure - with Hendrick Goltzius and Karel van ...

Image: Pierre Auguste Renoir, ‘Portrait of Claude Monet’, Musée d’Orsay, Paris © RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi Monet was the leading French ...

Nicolas Poussin was born at Les Andelys in Normandy and first trained in Rouen. From 1612 he lived in Paris and in 1624 travelled via Venice to Rome, where he stayed for most of his life. Poussin ...