National Gallery Paintings

The National Gallery collection brings together European paintings from the Renaissance to Impressionism, including portraits, landscapes and religious and mythological subjects. Our hand-painted oil reproductions include J. M. W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire and Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, alongside paintings by John Constable, Titian and Claude Monet. Browse the paintings below to compare the artists’ approaches to light, colour and composition, from Turner’s atmospheric skies to Monet’s garden scenes. Related artist and movement links provide further ways to explore the paintings available.