Guildhall Art Gallery

Established	1885 (original), 1999 (current)
Location	Moorgate area, City of London, England
Coordinates	51°30′56″N0°05′29″W / 51.5155°N 0.0914°W /51.5155; -0.0914
Type	Art museum
Collection size	About 4,000 items
Director	Elizabeth Scott
Architect	Richard Gilbert Scott (current building)

TheGuildhall Art Gallery houses the art collection of theCity of London, England. The museum is located in theMoorgate area of the City of London. It is a stone building in a semi-Gothic style intended to be sympathetic to the historicGuildhall, which is adjacent and to which it is connected internally.

TheCity of London Corporation had commissioned and collected portraits since 1670, originally to hang in theGuildhall. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Corporation's art collections grew through gifts and bequests to include history paintings and other genres of art.^[1]

The first purpose-built gallery for displaying the collection was completed in 1885 (141 years ago) (1885). This building was destroyed inThe Blitz in 1941, resulting in the loss of 164 paintings, drawings, watercolours, and prints, and 20 sculptures.^[2] It was not until 1985 that the City of London Corporation decided to redevelop the site and build a new gallery. The building was designed in apostmodern style by the British architectRichard Gilbert Scott.^[3][4] The new facility, which was intended to house a collection of about 4,000 items, was completed in 1999 (27 years ago) (1999).^[5]

The centrepiece of the collection,John Singleton Copley's huge painting depictingThe Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, was placed in a prominent position in the entrance hall of the gallery.^[6]

Vivien Knight was head of the Gallery, from 1983 until her death in 2009.^[7]

The Guildhall complex was built on the site ofLondon's Roman amphitheatre, and some of the remains of this are displayedin situ in a room in the basement of the art gallery.^[8]

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  Winter Landscape with a Frozen River and Figures byHendrick Avercamp, c.1620
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  Boy with a Glass and a Lute byFrans Hals, 1626
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  Cityscape with a Church and a Square byJan van der Heyden, c.1669
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  Panoramic View of Haarlem byJacob van Ruisdael, 1670
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  Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral byWilliam Marlow, c.1762
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  The Murder of Rizzio byJohn Opie, 1787
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  Portrait of Thomas Tomkins byJoshua Reynolds, 1789
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  The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 byJohn Singleton Copley, 1791
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  John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus byThomas Lawrence, 1798
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  Old Drury Lane Theatre on Fire byAbraham Pether, 1809
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  Barmouth Sands byWilliam Collins, 1835
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  St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor's Procession byDavid Roberts, 1836
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  Queen Victoria Enthroned in the House of Lords byGeorge Hayter, 1838
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  Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath byJoseph Severn, 1845
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  In the Gulf of Venice byClarkson Stanfield, 1848
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  The Wounded Cavalier byWilliam Shakespeare Burton
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  The Forum, Rome, 1859
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  Henry VI at Towton byWilliam Dyce, 1860
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  On the Road from Waterloo to Paris byMarcus Stone, 1863
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  My First Sermon byJohn Everett Millais, 1863
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  Sanctuary byRichard Burchett, 1867
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  The Last Evening byJames Tissot, 1873
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  Too Early byJames Tissot, 1873
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  La Ghirlandata byDante Gabriel Rossetti, 1873
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  Margaret of Anjou Being Taken Prisoner After the Battle of Tewkesbury byJohn Gilbert, 1875
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  The Music Lesson byFrederic Leighton, 1877
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  Clytemnestra byJohn Collier, 1882
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  The Thames by Moonlight with Southwark Bridge byJohn Atkinson Grimshaw, 1884
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  The Violinist byGeorge Adolphus Storey, 1886
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  The Ninth of November, 1888 byWilliam Logsdail, 1890
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  The Betrothed byJohn William Godward, 1892
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  On a Fine Day byElizabeth Forbes, 1903

• Alfred Temple, first director of the original gallery
• Statue of Margaret Thatcher (London Guildhall)

• Ceremonial Pictures (1950) "Guildhall Art Gallery Illustrated Handbooks, no. 1", Guildhall.
• English Portraits (1950) "Guildhall Art Gallery Illustrated Handbooks, no. 2", Guildhall.
• London Pictures (1951) "Guildhall Art Gallery Illustrated Handbooks, no. 3", Guildhall.
• English Landscapes (1952) "Guildhall Art Gallery Illustrated Handbooks, no. 4", Guildhall.
• Narrative Pictures (1953) "Guildhall Art Gallery Illustrated Handbooks, no. 5", Guildhall.
• Victorian Art: Reproductions by the Collotype Process of Some of the Pictures in the Loan Exhibition Held in the Art Gallery of the Corporation of London, At the Guildhall, in 1897. With Descriptive and Biographical Notes (1897), Blades.
• Callender, Geoffrey, (1928),Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Pictures and Prints from the Macpherson Collection, Guildhall Art Gallery.
• Feaver, William (ed.), (2004),Julian Perry. Testament: The Epping Forest Paintings, Guildhall Art Gallery.
• Howgego, J. L., (1965),Canaletto and his Influence on London Artists, Guildhall Art Gallery.
• Hyde, Ralph, (1999),London in Paintings, Guildhall Art Gallery.
• Knight, Vivien, (1999),Portrait Paintings in Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Library.
• Knight, Vivien, (1999),Victorian Pictures in the Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Library.
• Scott, Elizabeth, (2020),Guildhall Art Gallery, Director's Choice Scala.
• Solicari, Sonia (ed.), (2013),Victoriana: A Miscellany, Guildhall Art Gallery, accompanies the exhibition "Victoriana: The Art of Revival"
• Temple, A. G. (ed.), (1893),Reproductions by the Collotype Process of the Pictures Presented to the Guildhall Art Gallery of the Corporation of the City of London bySir John Gilbert R.A., Blades.

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• Artworks at Guildhall Art Gallery, on theArt UK site

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