Of the Gallery’s 27 works by women, one-third have been acquired because of these acts of generosity. Most recently, The Full ...

Image: Pierre Auguste Renoir, ‘Portrait of Claude Monet’, Musée d’Orsay, Paris © RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi Monet was the leading French ...

Johannes Vermeer is one of the great Dutch masters, though only about 35 paintings by him are known. Born in Delft in 1632, he may have been a pupil of local history painter Leonaert Bramer. Vermeer ...

Image: Detail from Vincent Van Gogh, 'Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear', 1889 The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Photo © The Courtauld / Bridgeman Images ...

Hofstede de Groot described it as Hamlet 3 but this identification is entirely fanciful. PROVENANCE: According to the Elton Hall catalogue 10 it was purchased for Sir James Stuart, Bart., by the ...

Individuals and small groups (of up to four people) are welcome to join these 60-minute taster tours of the collection. If you are interested in booking a private guided tour for your group, you can ...

The history of art is full of unsolved mysteries. Art historians have spent centuries trying to understand paintings whose exact meanings have been lost over time. The images and ideas in many Western ...

Expert guide Muriel Carré leads a guided walking tour, connecting the life and work of Van Gogh to the wider collection. The tour gives context for those wanting to explore the collection and Van Gogh ...

Painter, sculptor, architect, designer, theorist, engineer and scientist, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most famous images in European art. Though many of his works were never finished, and ...

Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated female artist of the seventeenth century, appears in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian saint martyred in the early fourth century. She ...

In Greek and Roman mythology, the god Saturn was warned that one of his offspring would overthrow him, so he ate his children at birth. To protect their son, his wife Ops took the infant Jupiter to ...

Jeremy Deller talks to Emily at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, one of the four UK partners taking part in 'The Triumph of Art'. Hear Deller give insights into his work on ...