It started from scratch – and became one of the world’s greatest collections. As the National Gallery celebrates its 200th birthday, we pick five sublime works – from a serene statesman to Van Gogh’s ...

Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399-1464), also known as Rogier de la Pasture ... He worked for a variety of patrons, including the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good. Van der Weyden’s paintings are known ...

It was a great surprise to find that a bed, hiding in plain sight, was used symbolically in paintings of the Annunciation by ...