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NATIONAL GALLERY
NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is the main art museum in London, located in the north of Trafalgar Square. It was founded in 1824 and it has a rich collection of over 2,300 pictures from mid-13th century to 1900.
Unlike comparable art museums such as Louvre or El Prado it wasn’t formed by nationalising an existing royal of princely art collection. It started when British government bought 38 paintings, and then the museum became bigger by helping donations. The final museum, is small compared with other museums but has important paintings, like Western Painting, from “Giotto to Cézzane”.
The National Gallery Building was designed by the architect William Wilkins.
