The sons of Clovis II
This demonstration of parental discipline of the Merovingian period remains shocking more than a century after its completion. It says much for the gr...
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Explore works from our European collection. Click on the linked artwork to find out if it is currently on display in the Gallery. Jacques Blanchard Mars and the vestal virgin 1638 (detail)
Chaucer at the court of Edward III
Though never officially a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, this colleague of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris was, by inclination an...
The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879
The so-called Zulu War came at the moment of greatest British imperial presence in South Africa. Though understood differently today, in 1879 - the ye...
Mars and the vestal virgin
Jacques Blanchard was one of the most important painters active in Paris in the first half of the seventeenth century. His principal rivals were Simon...
A young lady holding a pug dog
With his pupil Fragonard, François Boucher is rightly held to epitomise the rococo sensibility in French eighteenth-century painting. Refined in intel...
Pastoral landscape
Known as the 'Diamond Claude' by virtue of its faceted format, this exquisite painting on copper is one of a clutch of such works executed by the cele...
Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, John the Baptist, Bernardino and Bartholomew
With its gold-ground and tempera technique, this devotional altarpiece is an example of the international Gothic style that survived in Siena well int...