London Art Galleries

London is the arts and cultural capital of the world, and where else will one find the best art then its galleries. The there best galleries of London are National Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern.

National Gallery situated at Trafalgar Square was founded in 1824 and is home to over 2300 paintings which rage from 13th century to 1900. It is home to some of the greatest paintings ever made, paintings like The Virgin of the Rocks and The Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci, The Entombment and The Manchester Madonna by Michelangelo, The Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca, The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello to name a few.

Tate Britain is an art gallery located on Millbank in London and was originally known as National Gallery of British Art but during the later years it was commonly called Tate Britain. The gallery is home to a permanent collection of historic and as contemporary British art. Some of the works in the permanent Tate collection include; The Painter and his Pug by William Hogarth, Newton by William Blake, Horse Attacked by a Lion by George Stubbs, Giovanna Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough, Sketch for Hadleigh Castle by John Constable, The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin, The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, Ophelia by John Everett Millais, The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis and many more.