Day 2
NATIONAL GALLERY, CHINATOWN & COVENT GARDEN
We took the Tube to Westminster then walked up Whitehall to get to the National Gallery and spent most of the afternoon there. I have tried to identify most of the paintings, but you can find out a huge amount of information on their paintings by visiting the National Gallery website.
Chinatown and Covent Garden are just a short walk away.
Just outside Westminster tube station
The Cenotaph
A peek into Downing Street
Women's WW2 monument
Entrance to Horseguards Parade
Guardsman - Blues and Royals
Roadworks at Trafalgar Square
The leaning tower of Trafalgar !
St. Martin's in the Fields
National Gallery staircase
The Ambassadors - by Holbein
Viewed from the left of the painting a skull appears to remind viewers that life is short!
Charles 1st by Anthony Van Dyck (Note the badly proportioned horse head)
Rape of the Sabines by Giulio Licinio
Samson & Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens
Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt
The Wilton Diptych is a small portable diptych of two hinged panels, painted on both sides, now in the National Gallery, London. It is an extremely rare survival of a late medieval religious panel painting from England
Cupid complaining to Venus about being stung by bees - Lucas Cranach the Elder. Venus wears a velvet hat and jewelled choker in the style of those worn at the Saxon court where Cranach worked from 1505.
The Arnolfini Portrait - Jan van Eyck
A regatta on the Grand Canal - Canaletto
The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day - Canaletto
A Regatta on the Grand Canal - Canaletto
Whistlejacket - George Stubbs - master of painting horses.
The Watering Place - Thomas Gainsborough
The Hay Wain - John Constable
Dutch Boats in a Gale - J M W Turner
The Fighting Temeraire - J M W Turner
Calais Pier - J M W Turner
Rain, Steam and Speed - J M W Turner
Ulysses deriding Polyphemus - Homer's Odyssey - J M W Turner
The Umbrellas - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Snow Scene at Argenteuil - Claude Monet
Road in the Village of Baldersbrønde (Winter Day) - Laurits Andersen Ring
The Water-Lily Pond - Claude Monet
Water-Lilies - Claude Monet
Hillside in Provence - Paul Cézanne
The Horse Fair - Rosa Bonheur
Men of the Docks - George Bellows
Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Perseus turning Phineas and his Followers to Stone - Luca Giordano
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt -Orazio Gentileschi (A rather strangely composed painting)
Philip IV hunting Wild Boar (La Tela Real) = Diego Velázquez
The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus') - Diego Velázquez
Philip IV of Spain in Brown and Silver - Diego Velázquez
St. Martin in the Fields
The tower of the London Coliseum theatre
Chinatown
No thanks!
Ballet shoes, Covent Garden
London Graphic Centre
Street entertainer
Entertainer - Covent Garden (a corruption of Convent garden)
Juggler inside Covent Garden
A grandstand view from the pub
Royal Opera House
Shadows - Covent Garden