The National Gallery, London: an artists' collection for two centuries
Briefly

The National Gallery of England started from a modest collection of 38 paintings 200 years ago, now housing 2,400 paintings displaying European art history from mid-13th century.
Establishment of national art collections in the late 18th century by Western European courts led to the founding of museums like the Louvre in France and the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands before the National Gallery in England.
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