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Turner vs Claude: exhibition preview. Plus broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford on ‘Your Paintings’ and the view from Rubens’s window.

Doors open on the spring exhibition - Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude. Plus the private world of Renaissance birth.

Titian’s first masterpiece – not seen outside Russia for nearly 250 years. Plus Turner in Italy and Berger’s Ways of Seeing.

Flirting, fighting and gambling with Reynolds’s ‘Bloody’ Colonel Tarleton. Plus Turner Inspired and the dazzling Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun.

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The history of the National Gallery from its first-ever painting to today's world-class collection of paintings in the Western European tradition. See how the Gallery expanded its collection of Dutch, Italian and British painting including Turner

We are delighted that the iconic and much-loved work from our collection, 'The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up' (1839) by Joseph Mallord William Turner, will feature on the Bank of England’s new £20 bank note.

What did the Victorian era’s leading art critic have to say about our paintings?

26 April – 28 August 2017