- Guildhall Art Gallery
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 inThe 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 is connected internally.The gallery was originally built in 1885 to house art collections from the
City of London Corporation but the collections were destroyed duringWorld 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, includingPre-Raphaelite s, which features paintings by artists such asJohn Everett Millais andEdwin Landseer , and a view ofSalisbury Cathedral byJohn Constable . The centrepiece of the largest gallery isJohn 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.External links
* [http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/guildhall_art_gallery/ Official website of the Guildhall Art Gallery]
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