Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery: With Biographical Notices of the Deceased Painters
The British National Gallery of Pictures was founded in 1 824, during the administration of the Earl of Liver pool, by the purchase of the collection of John Julius Angerstein, Esq, consisting of thirty-eight pictures, com prising nine Specimens of the British school. This col lection, which thus formed the nucleus of the present National Gallery, was secured to the nation by a grant of Parliament, voted April the 2nd, 1824; and it was Opened to the public in the house of Mr. Angerstein in Pall Mall, on May the 1 0 th of that year.
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