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National Gallery

London, United Kingdom

Masterpieces in the collection

• Venus and Mars — Sandro Botticelli
• Supper at Emmaus — Caravaggio
• Madonna of the Meadow — Giovanni Bellini
• Lady Standing at a Virginal — Johannes Vermeer
• A young woman seated at a virginal — Johannes Vermeer
• Saint Jerome in his Study — Antonello da Messina
• Happy Union — Paolo Veronese
• The Arnolfini Portrait — Jan van Eyck
• Boy Bitten by a Lizard — Caravaggio
• Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers — Vincent van Gogh
• The Hay Wain — John Constable
• Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose — John Singer Sargent
• Bathers in Asnières — Georges Seurat
• The Golden Bough — J. M. W. Turner
• Death on a pale horse — J. M. W. Turner
• Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway — J. M. W. Turner
• Bacchus and Ariadne — Tiziano Vecellio
• Taufe Christi — Piero della Francesca
• Félix Pissarro — Camille Pissarro
• The Toilet of Venus — Diego Velazquez
• Adoration of the Magi — Jan Gossaert
• Mystic Nativity — Sandro Botticelli
• Music in the Tuileries — Édouard Manet
• Manchester Madonna — Michelangelo
• The Entombment — Michelangelo
• Ophelia — John Everett Millais
• Jesus im Haus seiner Eltern — John Everett Millais
• Saint George and the Dragon — Gustave Moreau
• Ansidei Madonna — Raphael
• Madonna of the Pinks — Raphael

Based on collection records (Wikidata). Works may be off view or on loan.

Suggested routes

• “Highlights from the collection”: the museum's own list of about 30 masterpieces from the collection (not a set route)

Crowds and quieter times

The museum advises that the galleries can be busy, and the food and drink areas are busy and can become noisy at lunchtime; staff can direct visitors to quieter spaces. Free timed booking gives fast-track entry.

From the museum's official website (checked on 2026-11-11). Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Source 4

Sources

• www.nationalgallery.org.uk
• Wikidata Q180788