Description:
Just 12 minutes by train from Victoria Station, this rarely visited museum houses one of the world's most significant collections of European old masters from the 17th and 18th centuries. In a purpose-built gallery designed by Sir John Soane in 1811, the collection is one of the oldest in Britain, having been assembled in the 1790s. Many of the paintings were collected by Stanislaus Augustus of Poland for shipment to his homeland. Before that happened, his kingdom was partitioned out of existence, and the paintings remained in London. You can view works by such old masters as Rembrandt, Rubens, Canaletto, Gainsborough, Watteau, Pousin, and others. The Sunday Telegraph has hailed Dulwich as "the most beautiful small art gallery in the world."
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Awards:
Frommer's
- Recommended 2010
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Contact:
- visit website
- tel: 020/8693-5254
- fax: +44 20 8299 8700
Address:
- Gallery Road
- Gallery Road, Dulwich Village, SE21
- London SE21 7AD
Hours:
- Tues-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat-Sun 11am-5pm
Strenuousness:
- Easy
- User Rating
