The Guildhall Art Gallery

The City of London Corporation's art is housed in the Guildhall Art Gallery. The 4,500-piece collection, which includes over 1,300 oil paintings, spans the years 1670 to the present. The collection is particularly strong in Victorian material, with a number of noteworthy Pre-Raphaelite pieces, as well as major ceremonial and topographical paintings. Commissions, purchases, and generous contributions and bequests have helped to build the collection, particularly the gift of famous Victorian paintings that are still popular with visitors today.

The City's expanding specialization in London subjects was recognized and established in 1943 as the collection grew. The Gallery continues to collect works of art, often with the help of grant-making organizations, in order to encourage current and future visitors to understand, empathize with, and feel a part of the story of one of the world's great cities. John Singleton Copley's massive 'Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar' September 1782, William Logsdail's 'The Ninth of November' 1888 and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'La ghirlandata' are among the collection's highlights.

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