W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, which was to be the legal proprietor of works intended for the gallery. In 1930–1931, the Trust made its first major acquisition, 21 paintings from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg as part of the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings, together with such masterpieces as Raphael’s Alba Madonna, Titian’s Venus with a Mirror, and Jan van Eyck’s Annunciation.
The first phase, the East Wing Project designed by Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones, opened to the general public in 2004. This offered a new ground level entrance from Trafalgar Square, named in honour of Sir Paul Getty. The primary entrance was additionally refurbished, and reopened in September 2005. Possible future initiatives include a “West Wing Project” roughly symmetrical with the East Wing Project, which would supply a future floor stage entrance, and the general public opening of some small rooms at the far jap finish of the building acquired as part of the swap with the National Portrait Gallery.
Completed and opened to the public on May 23, 1999, the location supplies an outdoor setting for exhibiting numerous pieces from the Museum’s up to date sculpture collection. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has introduced that it will receive one of the largest collections of early American furniture in personal arms, in addition to work and works on paper by major Dutch and American artists.
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The first 20 of those had been displayed off-website in Marlborough House in 1856.[22] Ralph Nicholson Wornum, the Gallery’s Keeper and Secretary, worked with John Ruskin to bring the bequest collectively. The Sainsbury Wing, a 1991 extension to the west by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is a notable example of Postmodernist structure in Britain.
For other nationwide artwork galleries, see List of national galleries. Basically, you might be allowed to take photos in the street in London. If you’re photographing a building and somebody walks by and gets in the shot it’s OK. We doubt anybody has a photo of Trafalgar Square with out strangers in the shot too.