Guildhall Art Gallery

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Wed Jun 20 2012

The City of London’s Guildhall Art Gallery has been rehung with a focus on nineteenth-century paintings by Constable, Leighton, Millais, Rossetti, Holman Hunt and others. Downstairs, there are absorbing paintings of London from the 1660s to the present, from moving depictions of war and melancholy working streets to the likes of the grandiloquent (and never-enacted) George Dance plan for a new London Bridge. The collection’s centrepiece is the massive ‘Siege of Gibraltar’ by John Copley, which spans two entire storeys of the purpose-built gallery. A sub-basement contains the scant remains of London’s 6,000-seater Roman amphitheatre, built around AD70; Tron-like figures and crowd sound effects give a quaint inkling of scale.

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Address:
Guildhall Art Gallery Guildhall Yard
off Gresham St
City
London
EC2V 5AE

Phone:
020 7332 3700
Website:
www.guildhallartgallery.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Opening hours:
10am-5pm Mon-Sat, 12noon-4pm Sun
Transport:
Tube: Bank
Price:
Temporary exhibitions £5, concs £3
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1. Guildhall Art Gallery
  - Guildhall Yard
    off Gresham St
    City
    London
    EC2V 5AE
  - 020 7332 3700
  - www.guildhallartgallery.cityoflondon.gov.uk
  - 51.515365,-0.091873

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Attractions and museums. Antiquities. History. Art. Masterpiece. Painting. Renaissance art

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Victoriana: The Art of Revival

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As well as the revival of performances in the Roman Amphitheatre below stairs, the Guildhall Gallery in the heart of the City is staging an intriguing show of artists from the past 20 years who have been inspired by nineteenth-century values and aest...

Sat Sep 7
– Sun Dec 8
Guildhall Art Gallery Guildhall Yard, off Gresham St, EC2V 5AE
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The Gallery has recently been rehung with greater emphasis on the 19th century paintings collection, and the "dull and unimpressive" official portraiture is no longer on display. Represented here are some of the big name artists of the Victorian era, including Lord Leighton, Alma-Tadema, Constable, Millais, Rossetti and Holman Hunt. Guildhall Art Gallery also houses the studio collection of Sir Matthew Smith, and has a large collection of London paintings dated from the 1660s to the present on display in the Undercroft. Admission to the Gallery and Amphitheatre is now completely free, with some special exhibitions ticketed.

Katty Wed Aug 10 2011
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