National Gallery

British

noun

a major art gallery in London, in Trafalgar Square. Founded in 1824, it contains the largest collection of paintings in Britain

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The works in Washington, all from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, were selected by Myles Russell-Cook, director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and formerly senior curator at the NGV.

From The Wall Street Journal

The scheme - first set up in 1980 - has facilitated numerous high-value loans, including Vincent van Gogh's 1888 work The Bedroom to the National Gallery.

From BBC

But the miraculous tale the day celebrates is best seen indoors there, in the Agnes Cloister of the National Gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the panels were restituted to the monastic community at Vyšší Brod, which has entrusted them to the Agnes Cloister of the National Gallery for all to see.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the original hangs, in its full greenish majesty, in the National Gallery in Washington, where I make a point of seeing it whenever I am there.

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