Create your own bespoke print of Flemish’s Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures from our collection. About this painting Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures, about 1620 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1889 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

In Collected Writings on Velazquez a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist & explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown's distinguished career, include some which are published in English for the first time & one which has never before been published. Two themes unite them. The first concerns the changing relationship between Velazquez & his patron Philip IV, which provides a framework for Brown to interpret the painter's career. The centrepiece of this relationship is Velaquez's masterpiece, Las Meninas, & this painting is the subject of two essays. The second theme is the problem of attributions & the related issue of Velazquez's innovative technique. Since Velazquez was not a prolific painter, questions of authenticity become increasingly contentious. Brown considers this matter in its widest

Dimensions & participates in the debate about individual attributions. Jonathan Brown is the Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He is the author of the standard biography on Velazquez, Velazquez, Painter & Courtier.

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Create your own bespoke print of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Colonel Tarleton from our collection. About this painting Colonel Tarleton, 1782 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1951 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s Combing the Hair (' La Coiffure') from our collection. About this painting Combing the Hair (' La Coiffure'), about 1896 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1937 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Artists of the Barbizon School often used small wood panels like this one when they wanted to work out of doors directly in front of their chosen motif. Easily portable & more sturdy than canvas or paper, the panels allowed the painter to move quickly f ...

This is one of a series of edifying historical, legendary & allegorical subjects painted in a room in the Petrucci palace in Siena in about 1509. Two others
- ' Penelope with the Suitors' by Pintoricchio & ' The Triumph of Chastity' also by Signorelli -
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The Volscians are besieging Rome (left background). Coriolanus, after being exiled from the city, is acting as their general & is preparing to attack. He was persuaded to desist by Valeria, his mother Volumnia, his wife Virgilia & his children. (Plutarch, ' Life of Coriolanus'). ...

Create your own bespoke print of Thomas Gainsborough’s Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk from our collection. About this painting Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk, 1748 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1875 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Cornelia, a Roman matron & mother of the Gracchi, declared her sons to be her jewels after a female friend boasted of the jewels she owned (Valerius Maximus, ' De Factis'). The quality of the top portion suggests that it is no more than an old copy (poss ...

The scene is derived from Marmontel's novel ' Belisaire' (1767). The general Belisarius, unjustly blinded & impoverished by the eastern Roman emperor Justinian, is welcomed as a hero into the home of a peasant who introduces him to his family. At the lef ...