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Person walking in London Charing Cross station and the National Gallery in London

Charing Cross station

National Gallery

A four minute walk from Charing Cross station

London ultra-short walk (21)

The National Gallery houses an incredible collection of over 2,300 artworks.


Here are five of the most famous masterpieces which never fail to delight:


The Arnolfini Portrait – Jan van Eyck (1434)

The Virgin of the Rocks – Leonardo da Vinci (1491–1508)

The Ambassadors – Hans Holbein the Younger (1533)

Sunflowers – Vincent van Gogh (1888)

Bathers at Asnières – Georges Seurat (1884)


Here are three, equally famous, that are absolute howlers:


The Entombment – Michelangelo (c.1500)

The Madonna and Child with Saints – Parmigianino (c.1526)

The Battle of San Romano – Paolo Uccello (c. 1438)