Create your own bespoke print of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Margate (?), from the Sea from our collection. About this painting Margate (?), from the Sea, about 1835-40 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1856 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 William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 1, The Marriage Settlement from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 1, The Marriage Settlement, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 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 William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 2, The Tête à Tête from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 2, The Tête à Tête, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 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 William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 3, The Inspection from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 3, The Inspection, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 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 William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 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. ...

' Marriage A-la-Mode' was the first of Hogarth's satirical moralising series of engravings about the upper echelons of society. The paintings were models from which the engravings would be made. The engravings reverse the compositions. The final scene takes place in the house of the Countess's father. She has taken poison on learning that her lover has been hanged for the murder of the Earl, reported in the broadsheet at her feet. Her crippled child embraces her & her father removes a ring from her finger as a suicide's possessions were forfeit. In the centre an apothecary remonstrates with the servant whom he accuses of obtaining the poison. Through the window to the right is a view of Old London Bridge. A dog seizes his chance to make off with the frugal meal on the table. The paintings on the wall to the left are Dutch low-life scenes, indicating the taste of the alderman. ...

Venus was the goddess of Love & Mars the god of War. Venus was the wife of Vulcan & her adultery with Mars was notorious. The hairstyle of the goddess in the painting suggests the approximate dating. ...

This is the keyboard lid, probably from a harpsichord, of which ' Silenus gathering Grapes' may have formed part. The subject of a satyr & a youth holding a syrinx suggests the theme of Marsyas (though Silenus is possible) & his follower, the composer Olympus. Both panels are quite likely originally to have come from a pair of decorated musical instruments which belonged to Fulvio Orsini by 1600. He was a classical scholar & collector, a protégé of the Farnese, & well acquainted with the painter. ...

This is one of several pictures, variously dated between 1757-69, acquired from the descendants of the Journu family, which lived in & around Bordeaux & for whom Perronneau worked extensively. A later inscription on the back of the portrait identifies the sitter as “M.me Legrix née d’ Hegar.” It is one of a small group of eighteenth-century pastels in the Collection. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo’s Mary Magdalene from our collection. About this painting Mary Magdalene, about 1535-40 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1878 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. ...