This view offers a magnificent view of the National Gallery,
manifesting its importance as a the leading national art collection
of Great Britain.
The National Gallery was founded in 1824 by purchasing a private
collection of 38 pictures. Now it houses over 4,000 works of European
art up to 20th century. The building was specially constructed
in 1838.
Among the masterpieces here are works by Botticelli, Leonardo
da Vinci, Titian, Van Dyck, Rubens, Holbein, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Monet,
Renoir, Van Gogh, Cezanne, as well as Hogarth, Constable, Reynolds,
Turner and many others. Click
here to see National Gallery building today.
On this photograph you can also clearly see on of the four bronze
lions (1868), and one of the two fountains (1939).
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