Artscape

The Fighting Temeraire by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838

90.7 × 121.6 cm

The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap

Sunflowers, fourth version by Vincent van Gogh

92.1 × 73 cm

The fourth version of the painting was attacked on October 14, 2022 by environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil campaign, who threw tinned tomato soup at it, while it was on display at National Gallery in London, before gluing their hands to the wall.

The Arnolfini Portrait

82.2 × 60 cm

An oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dated 1434. It is a full-length double portrait, believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their residence at the Flemish city of Bruges.

Saint Michael triumphant over the Devil with the Donor Antoni Joan Bartolomé Bermejo about 1440 – about 1501

179.7 × 81.9 cm

A saint clad in shining armour raises his sword to strike a hideous demon beneath his feet. This is the Archangel Michael fighting the devil, as described in the Book of Revelation.

(1522–1523)  is an oil painting by Titian

176.5 × 191 cm

Bacchus, god of wine, emerges with his followers from the landscape to the right. Falling in love with Ariadne on first sight, he leaps from his chariot, drawn by two cheetahs, towards her.

The Water Lily Pond, Claude Monet 1840 – 1926

88.3 × 93.1 cm

In 1893 Monet bought a plot of land next to his house in Giverny. He had already planted a colourful flower garden, but now he wanted to create a water garden ‘both for the pleasure of the eye and for the purpose of having subjects to paint’

Self Portrait at the Age of 34 by Rembrandt

91 × 75 cm

This is one of dozens of self portraits by Rembrandt. We see the artist in confident pose – self-assured, dressed in expensive-looking fur and velvet, his hat laced with jewels.

After the Bath, Woman drying herself Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917

103.5 × 98.5 cm

The ungainly but authentic-looking pose makes it easy to believe that Degas was present in the woman’s room, catching her before she could straighten herself.