National Gallery


noun
  1. 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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How to use National Gallery in a sentence

  • His own portrait in the National Gallery was painted when he was seventeen.

    Art in England | Dutton Cook
  • This was the burial of Wilkie at sea: now in the National Gallery.

    Art in England | Dutton Cook
  • But let us pass on to the artistic Boxing-day keepers at the National Gallery.

    Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies
  • The National Gallery is crowded with unaccustomed art students.

    Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies
  • An elegant monument of alabaster, with a bust of Pepys, taken from his portrait in the National Gallery, was unveiled in 1884.

    Milton's England | Lucia Ames Mead