Everything about The Guildhall Art Gallery totally explained
The
Guildhall Art Gallery houses the art collection of the
City of London,
England. It occupies a building that was completed in
1999 to replace an earlier building destroyed in
The Blitz in
1941. It is a stone building in a semi-gothic style intended to be sympathetic to the historic
Guidhall, which is adjacent and to which it's connected internally.
The gallery was originally built in
1885 to house art collections from the
City of London Corporation but the collections were destroyed during
World War II.
The collection consists of about 4,000 works, of which around 250 are on display at any one time. Many of the paintings are of London themes. There is also a significant collection of
Victorian era art, including
Pre-Raphaelites, which features paintings by artists such as
John Everett Millais and
Edwin Landseer, and a view of
Salisbury Cathedral by
John Constable. The centrepiece of the largest gallery is
John Singleton Copley's huge painting
The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar.
The Guildhall complex was built on the site of London's Roman
amphitheatre, and some of the remains of this are displayed
in situ in a room in the basement of the art gallery.
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