3. Detail of Hendrick Avercamp, 'A Scene on the Ice near a Town', about 1615 ...

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 This December, join us and celebrate the festive season ...

George Stubbs was classified in his lifetime as a sporting painter, and as such was excluded from full membership of the Royal Academy. He is best remembered for his paintings of horses and his ...

Rachel Ruysch was born in The Hague, the daughter of the botanist, physician and anatomist, Frederik Ruysch. Her family settled in Amsterdam when she was young and she trained there with the still ...

Find out why sunflowers represented happiness for Van Gogh. Learn how he experimented with colour to capture mood and express identity. The Sunflowers is one of the most popular paintings in the ...

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 ...

Cezanne associated with the Impressionists, but always had other aims. He said that his ambition was to 'make of Impressionism something solid and durable like the art of museums'. Cezanne's work was ...

Reni was trained by Denys Calvaert, and then probably in the Carracci workshop. He spent 1602-13 in Rome, where Domenichino had also arrived. Reni is reputed to have met (and quarrelled with) ...

He was born in The Hague and taught by his father, Jan van Os, one of the great Dutch flower painters. He worked in Paris and Haarlem. He was a flower and landscape painter.

3. Detail of Hendrick Avercamp, 'A Scene on the Ice near a Town', about 1615 ...

This self-guided short tour will take you on a journey from the French countryside to the streets of Paris and showcases 5 examples of impressionist art by masters such as Cézanne, Degas, and Monet.

The works in this room, some of the earliest in the National Gallery’s collection, accompanied Christian worship. Some were intended as handheld objects for personal devotion. Others functioned as ...