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National Gallery

British  

noun

  1. a major art gallery in London, in Trafalgar Square. Founded in 1824, it contains the largest collection of paintings in Britain

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art captures the massive industry and the difficult tradeoffs essential to U.S. energy development.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, venue for the fashion show being held later on Thursday, will also host a reprise of the famous 1985 museum exhibition by Lagerfeld.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

He went several times to a show of portraits by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres at London’s National Gallery in 1999 and was greatly taken with the photographic quality of Ingres’ 19th century drawings.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

The works in Washington, all from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, were selected by Myles Russell-Cook, director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and formerly senior curator at the NGV.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

Calder went on, “Remember the N for National Gallery that day we were trying to get the pentominoes to say something about where Frog was? That day with the frog napkins and the rain?”

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

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