Charing Cross station
National Gallery
A four minute walk from Charing Cross station
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)