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Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête (1743) by William Hogarth The Tête à Tête is the second canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage à-la-mode painted by William Hogarth. The actors in this classical interior are the son of an impoverished earl, a rich merchant’s daughter and their butler.
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Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête (1743) by William Hogarth
The Tête à Tête is the second canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage à-la-mode painted by William Hogarth. The actors in this classical interior are the son of an impoverished earl, a rich merchant’s daughter and their butler.

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London's National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900Template:Ref label in its home on Trafalgar Square. The collection belongs to the British public and entry to the main collection is free, although there are charges for entry to special exhibitions.

The National Gallery's beginnings were modest; unlike comparable galleries such as the Louvre in Paris or the Museo del Prado in Madrid, it was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the British government bought 36 paintings from the banker John Julius Angerstein in 1824. After that initial purchase the Gallery has been shaped mainly by its early directors, notably Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and by private donations, which comprise two thirds of the collection. The resulting collection is small compared with the national galleries of continental Europe, but has a high concentration of important works across a broad art-historical scope, from the Early Renaissance to Post-impressionism, with relatively few weak areas.

The present building, on the northern side of Trafalgar Square, is the third to house the Gallery, and like its predecessors it has often been deemed inadequate. The façade by William Wilkins is the only part of his original building of 1832–8 that remains essentially unchanged, as the structure as a whole has been altered and expanded in a piecemeal manner throughout its history. Notable additions have been made by E. M. Barry and Robert Venturi. The current Director of the National Gallery is Nicholas Penny.

Collection highlights

English or French Medieval
The Wilton Diptych
Paolo Uccello
The Battle of San Romano
Piero della Francesca
The Baptism of Christ
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait
Sandro Botticelli
Venus and Mars
Leonardo da Vinci
The Virgin of the Rocks, The Burlington House Cartoon
Michelangelo
The Entombment, The Manchester Madonna
Raphael
Portrait of Pope Julius II, The Madonna of the Pinks, The Mond Crucifixion
Titian
Bacchus and Ariadne, The Death of Actaeon
Hans Holbein the Younger
The Ambassadors
Agnolo Bronzino
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Boy Bitten by a Lizard, Supper at Emmaus, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens
Le Chapeau de Paille, The Judgement of Paris (two versions), Landscape with Het Steen
Nicolas Poussin
A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term, Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake
Diego Velázquez
The Rokeby Venus
Anthony van Dyck
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
Rembrandt
Belshazzar's Feast, two self-portraits
Salvator Rosa 
Self-Portrait
Johannes Vermeer
Lady Standing at a Virginal, Lady Seated at a Virginal
Canaletto
A Regatta on the Grand Canal, The Stonemason's Yard
William Hogarth
Marriage à-la-Mode
George Stubbs
Whistlejacket
Thomas Gainsborough
Mr and Mrs Andrews
Joseph Wright of Derby
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
J. M. W. Turner
The Fighting Temeraire, Rain, Steam and Speed
John Constable
The Hay Wain
Paul Cézanne
Les Grandes Baigneuses
Claude Monet
The Water-Lily Pond, The Thames Below Westminster
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Umbrellas, Boating on the Seine
Georges Seurat
Bathers at Asnières
Vincent van Gogh
Sunflowers, Van Gogh's Chair, A Wheatfield, with Cypresses





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