National Gallery, London

* The Wilton Diptych
* Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano
* Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ
* Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait
* Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars
* Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin of the Rocks, The Burlington House Cartoon
* Michelangelo, The Entombment, The Manchester Madonna
* Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II, The Madonna of the Pinks
* Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne
* Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors
* Agnolo Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
* Diego VelÃ¡zquez, The Rokeby Venus
* Peter Paul Rubens, Le Chapeau de Paille, The Judgement of Paris (two versions), Landscape with Het Steen
* Anthony van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles I

* Rembrandt, Belshazzar's Feast, two self portraits
* Canaletto, A Regatta on the Grand Canal, The Stonemason's Yard
* William Hogarth, Marriage Ã -la-Mode
* George Stubbs, Whistlejacket
* Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews
* Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
* J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, Rain, Steam and Speed
* John Constable, The Hay Wain
* Paul CÃ©zanne, Les Grandes Beigneuses
* Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond, The Thames Below Westminster
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Umbrellas, Boating on the Seine
* Georges Seurat, Bathers at AsniÃ¨res
* Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, Van Gogh's Chair

Les Grandes Beigneuses by Paul CÃ©zanne

Directors

Director	Served
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA	2 July 1855 – 24 December 1865
Sir William Boxall RA	13 February 1866 – 1874
Sir Frederick William Burton	20 February 1874 – March 1894
Sir Edward Poynter Bt PRA	April 1894 – 1904
Sir Charles Holroyd	11 June 1906 – June 1916
Sir Charles Holmes	4 August 1916 – December 1928
Sir Augustus Daniel	January 1929 – December 1933
Sir Kenneth Clark	January 1934 – December 1945
Sir Philip Hendy	January 1946 – December 1967
Sir Martin Davies CBE Dlitt FBA FSA	January 1968 – September 1973
Sir Michael Levey MVO	October 1973 – December 1986
Neil MacGregor	January 1987 – May 2002
Dr Charles Saumarez Smith	July 2002 – present

Associate artists

Since 1989, the gallery has run a scheme that gives a studio to contemporary artists to create work based on the permanent collection. They usually hold the position of associate artist for two years and are given an exhibition in the National Gallery at the end of their tenure. The list of associate artists so far is as follows:
*Paula Rego (1989â€"90)
*Ken Kiff (1991â€"93)
*Peter Blake (1994â€"96)
*Ana Maria Pacheco (1997â€"99)
*Ron Mueck (2000â€"02)
*John Virtue (2003â€"05)
*Alison Watt (2006â€"08)

Notes

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References

* Barker, Felix & Hyde, Ralph (1982). London as it might have been. London: John Murray
* Bomford, David (1997). Conservation of Paintings. London: National Gallery Company
* Bradley, Simon & Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). The Buildings of England â€" London 6: Westminster. London & New Haven: Yale University Press
* Fisher, Mark (2004). Britain's Best Museums and Galleries. London: Penguin
* Gentili, Augusto; Barcham, William & Whiteley, Linda (2000). Paintings in the National Gallery. London: Little, Brown & Co.
* Spalding, Frances (1998). The Tate: A History. London: Tate Gallery Publishing
* Summerson, John (2003). Georgian London. London & New Haven: Yale University Press
* Taylor, Brandon (1999). Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public, 1747-2001. Manchester: Manchester University Press
* Walden, Sarah (2004). The Ravished Image: An Introduction to the Art of Picture Restoration & Its Risks. London: Gibson Square

External links

* National Gallery official website
* The Building of the National Gallery
* 360Â° panoramas of 17 rooms in the National Gallery from Insecula
* The National Gallery at Pall Mall from The Survey of London