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1870

The National Gallery’s young patrons programme

News on exhibitions including 'Velázquez', 'Cézanne in Britain' and 'Dutch Winter Scenes.

In the February 2008 podcast, stylish gentlemen seek art, antiquity and the ultimate Roman holiday as 'Pompeo Batoni' opens at the Gallery.

Reciprocal entry for Van Gogh is currently suspended as all available tickets are sold out. Reciprocal entry for future exhibitions can be booked by emailing hello@nationalgallery.org.uk.

1838 - 1888

1896

In painting, impasto (from the Italian for dough) describes areas of the surface of a painting which are heavily built up with paint layers. Impastoed paint is highly textured; brush or palette knife marks are usually clearly evident. The intenti...

Broadly speaking the term Post-Impressionism embraces the artists working in France in the 1880s, immediately after the Impressionists. It was coined by Roger Fry for his exhibition of 1910 in which he showed Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin and Seur...

This is a major collection of 19th and 20th-century works of art which belong to the German-born collector Heinz Berggruen. In 1991 a selection of works from this collection was generously loaned to the National Gallery for a period of five years....