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The figure in black is the Greek archbishop John Bessarion. In 1453, after the fall of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine (Eastern Christian) Empire, to the Islamic Ottoman Empire, Bessarion ...

Two paintings – one by the foremost figure in Swiss landscape painting during the 19th century and the other by the leading Norwegian artist of his day – have been generously gifted to the Nation. 'At ...

Holbein was one of the most accomplished portraitists of the 16th century. He spent two periods of his life in England (1526-8 and 1532-43), portraying the nobility of the Tudor court. Holbein's ...

He was born and worked in Antwerp. He seems to have shared his studio with his elder brother, Gillis. Later he settled in Hoboken. He was a marine, landscape and small-scale figure painter. He painted ...

A reflection on the artists and National Gallery exhibitions and paintings that have been part of David Hockney’s long career ...

He was born in Nancy, and became a pupil of Maurice Quentin de la Tour and was influenced by Greuze. Later, he was painter to Queen Marie-Antoinette. In 1791 he was in London and exhibited at the ...

Jacob van Ruisdael was the foremost seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painter, and even paved the way for the rural scenes Thomas Gainsborough painted in England in the eighteenth century.

This idyllic view of elegant trees and a peaceful lake is one of a number of related scenes painted by Corot at this period. The lake is one of those at Ville-d'Avray near Paris, the location of Corot ...

This landscape was, for a long time, thought to be by a follower of Jacob van Ruisdael, but both the landscape and the figures are now considered to be van Ruisdael’s work. The identification was ...

Jacob van Ruisdael painted many landscapes, but few marine pictures; the ones he did make are simply views of the sea off the coast of Holland, with small sailing vessels usually in a wind varying ...

This painting is the second of a pair that depicts episodes from the Book of Exodus, which describes how Moses rescued the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and accompanied them into the promised land ...