Favourite painting in National Gallery

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

This was being discussed on the Jeremy Vine show as I was going to the tip. I'm sure it's been done before but here goes. What's your favourite painting that you must see if you go to the National Gallery.

I must always see amd usually go straight to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Experiment_on_a_Bird_in_the_Air_Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby. The guy looking like Frank Findlay, the scared little girls the vision of science and the changes it will make is quite incredible. He can also paint, which is a great bonus for me. Very Caravagioesque in the lighting.

My wife can never go without seeing this painting

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/p...hn-stuart-and-his-brother-lord-bernard-stuart

 

[OldBlueLady]

Two favourites for me, Holbein's "The Ambassadors", and trying to get the right angle to see the skull....

 

[EastStandBlue]

 

[Gremlin]

Tha Laughing Cavalier, Pete. The eyes follow you around the room.

 

[OldBlueLady]

And Seurat's "Bathers at Asnieres" to admire the technique

 

[LCBB72]

Tha Laughing Cavalier, Pete. The eyes follow you around the room.

That is in the Wallace Colection .

 

[Gremlin]

That is in the Wallace Colection .

Wiki spells it Collection.

 

[LCBB72]

Wiki spells it Collection.

You knew what I ment though .:winking:

 

[MK Shrimper]

Any L.S. Lowry? If not then it ain't worth bobbins.

 

[Mad Cyril]

If you asked me a year ago I would have gone for the Rolf Harris.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Manet's The Execution of Maximilian.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/edouard-manet-the-execution-of-maximilian

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Love this painting!

 

[Pubey]

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Love this painting!

me too........

 

[OldBlueLady]

The Fighting Temeraire, a good selection and certainly my favourite Turner.

 

[LCBB]

Ron Martin cutting the tape at the opening of the new ground :whistling: .

 

[KAB]

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/camille-****arro-the-boulevard-montmartre-at-night

Ive always admired impressionist art and this fits the bill perfectly.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

some great paintings. What a lucky lot we are and all free. KAB I think your link is not quite right. i think this is the link.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/camille-****arro-the-boulevard-montmartre-at-night

By the way how do you post the picture rather than the link.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Bugger it does not seem to want to work

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Good thread.

The link isn't working because it thinks the first four letters of his surname are rude, which takes the ****.

To post a photo you need the url of the jpeg and you put [ img ][/ img ] around it, without the spaces.

 

[OldBlueLady]

This works though, I think? Camille ****arro - Montmartre at Night

Obviously not! Anyway, a save later.....