
The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to 19th century.

The NMWA was established in 1959 around the core Matsukata Collection as Japan's museum specializing in Western art.

There are presently seven permanent galleries in the main building of the National Museum in Warsaw.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has one of the most representative collection in Russia of foreign art dated from ancient times to modern days.

The Science Museum has over 300,000 objects emphasizing the history of western science, technology and medicine since 1700.

Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude is the most in-depth examination of Turner's experience of Claude's art to date.

The exhibition explores the relashionships between artists and animals, from Brueghel to Jeff Koons, and includes Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Degas

The exhibition will run from February 10 to May 27, 2012 at the Sternberg Palace.

The English animal painter George Stubbs (1724-1806) is the most prominent representative of so-called 'sporting art'.

The art of drawing assumed an unusually prominent role in Italy in the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) was a leading portrait and landscape painter born in Sudbury, Suffolk.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 - 1770 was an 18th century artist.

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1684 - 1721, was a French Rococo painter.

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792) was the foremost English portrait painter in the 18th century.

William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) was a painter of portraits, history and contemporary narrative genre.

Portrait of Miss Haverfield, c. 1780 was painted by Thomas Gainsborough and is held in the Wallace Collection, London, UK.

The Countess's Morning Levee c. 1743 was painted by William Hogarth and is held in the National Gallery, London, UK.

The Graham Children, 1742 was painted by William Hogarth and is held in the Tate Collection, London, UK.

The Stonemason's Yard, 1726 - 1730, was painted by Antonio Canaletto and is held in the National Gallery, London, UK.

Captain Robert Orme, 1756 was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds and is held in the National Gallery, London, UK.